archives for Sunday 25 January 2009
the spectrum
Sunday 25 January 2009 | 185 cookies in the jar
I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter, not even in Cambridge, where they are so adept at putting people into classes and fixing caps on their heads and letters after their names. [...] All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; [...]
