Alex Massie Alex Massie

Where the Wild Things Roam

Another splendid obituary from The Daily Telegraph that offers a splendid view of a rather different, if also gruesome, world than with which most of us are familiar. Funny too, of course, in the way in which the sadnesses of ghastly people often can be. (I also liked the understatement here: “Like his father, however, Alec Wildenstein could become somewhat disagreeable when things did not go his way.”)

Anyway, read it all, but here’s a choice excerpt:

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