‘All this remembrance day business gets on your nerves, don’t it? It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn't run it for all it’s worth. However, it don’t do to say so. They’d hoof me out of the Club if I raised my voice above a whisper.’
Major Lord Peter Wimsey, DSO and two years’ shell shock.
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928.
Portrait, Balliol College Oxford (168)
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