4.05.2007

In his book, The Four Men A Farrago, Hilaire Belloc's character 'Myself', who represents his solemnity, describes the visit of an a East Sussex eccentric to Westminster to his two companions Grizzlebeard (who represents his irony) and The Sailor (his optimism):

'Well, then, when he had come to Westminster, very soon there was a day in which the Big-wigs would have a debate, all empty and worthless, upon Hot Air, or the value of nothingness; and the man who took most money there out of the taxes, and his first cousin who sat opposite and to whom he had promised the next wad of public wealth, and his brother-in-law and his parasite and all the rest of the thieves had begun their pompous folly, when great Fuller arose in his place, full of the South, and said that he had not come to the commons house to talk any such balderdash, or to hear it, but contrariwise proposed, then and there to give them a Eulogy upon the County of Sussex, from which he had come and which was the captain ground and head county of the whole world.'
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Proverbs of Heaven and Hell.
William Blake