Monday, July 9, 2012

Life is too short


Life is too short for


  1. watching television
  2. reading anything much, apart from history, written after the death of Evelyn Waugh or John Betjeman
  3. conversing with arrogant fools
  4. modern 'culture', whatever that may be
  5. Picasso, Ted Hughes, and a thousand other worthless charlatans and their pseudo-intellectual promoters
  6. German philosophy, theology, or what-not
  7. the opinions of tinpot scribblers in the editorial columns of newspapers
  8. most modern church 'music'
  9. witless, banal, goodthinkful, inane, anodyne homilies
  10. reading this. 

4 comments:

Larry Denninger said...

Nice list - but I have to object to one point. Tim Powers is a darn fine author - Catholic too - and I've yet to be disappointed by any of his books.

Left-footer said...

Thanks! Tim Powers is clearly someone I should be reading, and I will take your advice and read whatever I can find here in Poland.

I did write "Reading anything much", because Piers Paul Reid is another good catholic novelist.

My post was written in an outburst of rage at the news about ++Muller.

ignorant redneck said...

Modern culture is an oxymoron

Left-footer said...

Absolutely agree. Hope you are having a good summer.