tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post1999290440552764244..comments2024-03-28T19:27:59.772+00:00Comments on A K Haart: On tourA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-89250307158810272032012-07-21T17:35:14.950+01:002012-07-21T17:35:14.950+01:00Roger - I like a "civilised and rather langui...Roger - I like a "civilised and rather languid style" myself. It's a splendid way of slipping the knife in gently.<br /><br />James - yes, because in some ways you know web acquaintances better than real life acquaintances.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-35848839066891095952012-07-21T12:40:32.591+01:002012-07-21T12:40:32.591+01:00It's an odd feeling, like meeting someone you ...It's an odd feeling, like meeting someone you know without being able to give them at least a nod of acknowledgement.<br /><br />Ye sit is and yet in some ways, it's more real than small-talking acquaintances in RL.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-20236730828799866112012-07-21T07:17:20.794+01:002012-07-21T07:17:20.794+01:00Off topic but instructive - pinched from Charon QC...Off topic but instructive - pinched from Charon QC's blog. I do like the civilised and rather languid style, one can almost smell the Earl Grey and hear the chink of bone china.<br /><br />"<br />Lord Pembroke<br />The Foreign Office<br />London<br /><br />6th April 1943<br /><br />My Dear Reggie,<br /><br />In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.<br /><br />We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when spring is upon us, but few of us would dare to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.<br /><br />Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,<br />H.M. Ambassador.<br />"<br /><br />Apropos comments, some are noisy places where a thought would be lost - others I just know there is no point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com