![]() Misery Rating: 1 Sob Too witty to be truly depressing.Ĥ. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.” It is an indecent subject a cruel, gluttonous subject a drunken, disorderly subject a wasteful, disastrous subject a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralising subject. “I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. In the grand tradition of tradition, I find this to be a comfort. Shaw regarding Christmas, as cheerless as any tale, although it goes to show that attitudes haven’t changed either since the 1800s. To kick us off, we have a quote from the mighty G.B. Please raise your glass, and stifle the world’s smallest digital orchestras, for Seasonal Suffering, for Negative Noël, for December Distress…ĥ. So here are my 5 Most Miserable Literary Irish Christmasses Of All Time, in descending order of dismay. And nostalgia exists merely to be rammed down the throat of the youth of today, who will never how good they have it. These are not “ but we were happy” stories these are stories where nobody is safe. I was half way down a bottle – sorry er, glass of port the other day, when it occurred to me that nothing sells like an Irish writer’s horrible Christmas. ![]()
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