Or “Let Me Google that For Me”
There are various pages like this I have started and not kept up,and I won’t keep this one up indefinitely. Whatevs, as the young people used to say. Things I noted down to google, and did, latest first. Why are you reading this? Life is too short, yolo etc
| Date | Thing to google | Source | What it is |
| 7/8/2022 | Derrick Bell | Guardian article | Read the 1992 short story “The Space Traders” – omfg! |
| 6/8/22 | The Second Mrs Tanqueray | Belloc’s matilda! | The Second Mrs. Tanqueray is a problem play by Arthur Wing Pinero. It utilises the “Woman with a past” plot, popular in nineteenth century melodrama. The play was first produced in 1893 by the actor-manager George Alexander and despite causing some shock to his audiences by its scandalous subject it was a box-office success, and was revived in London and New York in many productions during the 20th century. |
| 6/8/22 | Yeats – revolution beggar on horseback whipping beggar on foot, then they swap places but the whipping continues | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | The Great Day HURRAH for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. (The parting on the left, is now a parting on the right…) |
| 6/8/22 | Snyder “Sado-populism” | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2021/08/sado-populism.html https://notesfromplagueisland.com/2021/11/16/sado-populism-and-the-politics-of-pain/ |
| 6/8/22 | Jonathan Swift “Celia shits” | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | Poem – The lady’s dressing room https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50579/the-ladys-dressing-room |
| 6/8/22 | Hilaire Belloc – Matilda | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | Girl who cried wolf… https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/matilda/ |
| 6/8/22 | Boris Johnson at Treasury Select Committee in 2018 – kitten bouncing into a combine harvester | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | |
| 6/8/22 | Sherard Osborn | Fintan O’Toole Heroic Failure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherard_Osborn Holy shit, that makes Hornblower look like a layabout/coward |
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