irresponsibilities

Updated: May 4, 2025

Their facts were too much for him; they impinged on some obscure old prejudices of his. They drove him into a clever perversity of humour. They account for his cat-like touches, his contrariness, his fondness for scoring off everybody from the Deity downwards, his premeditated irresponsibilities, his " "Did he not prove that the Odyssey was written by a woman?" "He did.

Norman Douglas - South Wind