Henry Fielding
Epics are hard and dull – but today’s are ‘great’ and ‘nice’
Spoiler alert: in Henry Fielding’s play Tom Thumb, the hero is swallowed by a cow ‘of larger than the usual…
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‘Don’t just sit there, Google something!’
‘I used to be fat and sad. Then I exercised.
Then I dieted. Then I became superfit.
Superfit and supersad.’
‘Turn left on to the heath. Then you have reached your destination.’
‘He’s playing with his HS2 train set.’
‘We’ve had the room
painted “privilege white”.’
‘The world is urging restraint, sir.’
‘The booster seat is for John Bercow.’
‘Turn me into a princess?
Haven’t I suffered enough?’
Left: Man stands aside
for woman Right: Man doesn’t stand
aside for woman
‘My wife wants to send me to Coventry.’