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May. 28th, 2012 03:34 pmYet more thoughts on the media.
My natural newspaper (the Times) has been barred from my house since 1982 or so: when "Dame" Harold Evans (as Private Eye would style him) left the Thunderer for pastures further from the sty. So I read the Grauniad. But then again the greatest crossword compiler of the modern age, Araucaria, will not work for Murdoch and sets mainly for the Grauniad. So some small win there then.
When I have that spare hour or two, an Araucarian crossword is one of the great joys of the world. Solipsistic intellectual masturbation is such a good look, don'tyerthink? Especially when I'm flailing around for answers, being a trifle dim of brain at present.
It's always comforting to know that there are folk out there who are so clever that they make even the cleverest of the rest of us (and I'm not quite that, alas) look slow. Such folk are meant for us as reminders…and perhaps to help us avoid the descent into hubris, lest we all become like unto a media baron or mediæval monarch.
My natural newspaper (the Times) has been barred from my house since 1982 or so: when "Dame" Harold Evans (as Private Eye would style him) left the Thunderer for pastures further from the sty. So I read the Grauniad. But then again the greatest crossword compiler of the modern age, Araucaria, will not work for Murdoch and sets mainly for the Grauniad. So some small win there then.
When I have that spare hour or two, an Araucarian crossword is one of the great joys of the world. Solipsistic intellectual masturbation is such a good look, don'tyerthink? Especially when I'm flailing around for answers, being a trifle dim of brain at present.
It's always comforting to know that there are folk out there who are so clever that they make even the cleverest of the rest of us (and I'm not quite that, alas) look slow. Such folk are meant for us as reminders…and perhaps to help us avoid the descent into hubris, lest we all become like unto a media baron or mediæval monarch.
