Comments on: Molesworth

By: non-Marxist

non-Marxist — Sat, 15 May 2004 17:23:09 +0000

“Analytical Marxists”? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? To be fair, though, Marxism is logically consistent if one starts with the assumption that life is a zero sum game (wealth is not created or destroyed, it is simply endowed and there’s a fixed supply). Unfortunately, none of the theory works without that illogical, unrealistic assumption.

By: Matt Brubeck

Matt Brubeck — Sat, 15 May 2004 17:05:05 +0000

I think the adjective should be molesworthy, as in “a penchant for molseworthy phrases.”

By: Michael Brooke

Michael Brooke — Sat, 15 May 2004 08:01:28 +0000

I read a fascinating article a few years ago comparing Geoffrey Willans’ and William Burroughs’ 1950s literary experiments and concluding that Willans’ work was far more original and subversive. Sadly, I don’t recall where it appeared and a Google search has proved fruitless.

By: will

will — Fri, 14 May 2004 23:56:15 +0000

I find the analytical Marxists easier to read than this thread.

By: marylou

marylou — Fri, 14 May 2004 23:39:55 +0000

Thanks thanks thanks from a fammished Molesworthian. And gess wot! You can order the Compleet Molesworth from the UK Amazon and have it sent rite to the US for a meer pittence and farster than you can bung up the skoool drane with a pare of old soks or sneek a sossage to the skool dog!

By: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick Nielsen Hayden — Fri, 14 May 2004 22:54:08 +0000

The masters larf they are in stitches.

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Fri, 14 May 2004 19:22:32 +0000

I hope everyone hav seen this splendid story featuring Nigel Molesworth esq. and his whole cast of reprobate friends: Ho for hoggwarts!

By: john b

john b — Fri, 14 May 2004 19:21:13 +0000

…and CT’s right-wing commenters think that everybode here are utterly wet and a weed.

By: des

des — Fri, 14 May 2004 17:15:03 +0000

And which boy (or gurl) have a face like a squashed tomato?

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 14 May 2004 16:42:54 +0000

CT is very like St Custards, wot with Henry who is head of skool, captane of everything, and winer of the mrs joyful prize for raffia, Belle, who is topp at Latin despite being both a new bug and a gurl, and Harry, who secretly work for Gabbitas & Thring (as any fule kno) but who otherwise keeps a strate bat. Keeron is almost certainly an oik. There are a host of goody-goodies (but I’m not naming names). OTOH, “Every skool hav a resident bully who is fat and roll about the place clouting everybode.” Nominations?