His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz\u2013everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: \u201cIt is later than you think,\u201d which was designed to cause uneasiness. It was never later than Mr. Pinfold thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz\u2013everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: \u201cIt is later than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[255,222],"class_list":["post-10570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-evelyn-waugh","tag-progress-is-perverse"],"yoast_head":"\n
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