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poliphilo Andrew Bridgen described Tony Blair as looking these days like "a devil sick of sin".
"Now where's that from?" I asked myself- and had to look it up.
It's Wilfred Owen, of course, and the context is quite other. Still how well it fits. The full quote is, "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin." Now, isn't that Blair to a T.
Do we end up with the faces we deserve? Do saints end up looking like saints and reet bastards like reet bastards? Can you spot a wrong'un by one glance at his/her dial? Do we become our own Dorian Gray portraits, with our crimes writ large in our wrinkles?
Probably not.
And yet, and yet.... Blair who started off as a fairly presentable young man (though there was always a glint in his eyes) is now hideous. And a lot of people of the Epstein class are pretty ugly too.
At this point I was going to post a recent picture of Blair but held my hand.
For a couple of reasons.
1. Copyright.
2. I just didn't want to deface this blog with that awful, grinning Satanic mask......
"Now where's that from?" I asked myself- and had to look it up.
It's Wilfred Owen, of course, and the context is quite other. Still how well it fits. The full quote is, "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin." Now, isn't that Blair to a T.
Do we end up with the faces we deserve? Do saints end up looking like saints and reet bastards like reet bastards? Can you spot a wrong'un by one glance at his/her dial? Do we become our own Dorian Gray portraits, with our crimes writ large in our wrinkles?
Probably not.
And yet, and yet.... Blair who started off as a fairly presentable young man (though there was always a glint in his eyes) is now hideous. And a lot of people of the Epstein class are pretty ugly too.
At this point I was going to post a recent picture of Blair but held my hand.
For a couple of reasons.
1. Copyright.
2. I just didn't want to deface this blog with that awful, grinning Satanic mask......
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