Five Best Books on Curmudgeons
12th June 2010
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, gives us a treat.
I wasn’t aware of Larkin, though.
A misogynist, child-hater and stone atheist, Larkin was naturally a political conservative, who said that all his life he had identified liberals with “idleness, greed, and treason.”
My kind of guy.