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Friday, 21 October 2022

Haphazard episodes




Our lives seem to be made up of apparently haphazard episodes, some meaningless, others important, and although we do live principally with our families and friends and neighbours, I find that people I hardly know have sometimes walked casually into my life, and influenced it, and then walked out of it as casually as they came in.

Booth Tarkington - Women (1925)

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Truss walked into our lives, and then so rapidly out again, that she hardly influenced us at all. She is the only PM who remains purely at the level of celebrity, famous for being PM and nothing more.

A K Haart said...

Sam - indirectly, I think she left us with another insight into how difficult it would be for a Tory PM to push a conservative agenda.