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Injury Time

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by D J Enright


  Beer, Dame Gillian, 143–4

  Beer, Patricia, 47, 48; Collected Poems, 48

  belief, 6, 8; see also humanism; morals; religion

  Belsey, Professor Catherine, 157–8

  Belstead, Lord, 40

  Bennett, Alan: Talking Heads, 52

  Bennett, Paul, 143

  Benson, E. F.: Mapp and Lucia, 42

  Bernard, Tristan, 55–6

  Betti, Ugo, 8

  Bierce, Ambrose: The Devil’s Dictionary, 145

  Big Brother, 60

  Biggers, Earl Derr, 34; The House Without a Key, 34

  biography, 124–6

  Birrell, Dr (translator), 62

  Blair, Tony, 60, 122–3, 159

  Blake, William, 57; ‘Jerusalem’, 133; ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’, 131

  Blincoe, Nicholas, 129

  books, 15, 33, 47–8, 70, 78, 130, 148, 158; bad, 5–6, 10, 78–9

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 156

  Bowen, Elizabeth: The House in Paris, 83

  Boyle, Charles: ‘Literals’, 111

  Boyle, Edward, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, 77

  Bradbury, Malcolm, 154; Doctor Criminale, 154

  Brecht, Bertolt, 117; ‘Deliver the Goods’, 12; ‘Hymn to God’, 52; Journals, 83

  Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 52

  British Board of Film Classification, 79

  British Council, 84, 157–9;

  Literature Matters (newsletter), 157–9

  Broadcasting Standards Commission, 146

  Broccoli, Alberto R. ‘Cubby’, 91

  Brodsky, Joseph, 125, 148;

  ‘Letter to Horace’, 44

  Brombert, Victor: Trains of Thought, 118–19

  Brontë, Charlotte and Emily, 61

  Brooke, Rupert, 126; ‘Peace’, 132

  Browne, Sir Thomas, 111

  Browning, Robert, 106

  BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), 31

  Buchan, Claire, 32, 33

  Buchan, Toby, 141–2

  Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra, 7

  Burchfield, R. W., 35, 40; The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 110, 147

  Burgess, Anthony: Earthly Powers, 4

  Bush, George W. (and Bushisms), 59, 135, 159

  butler, Liverpudlian, in Amsterdam, 159–60

  Butler, Samuel, 10, 11, 52

  Byatt, A. S.: The Biographer’s Tale, 147

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord: from Hours of Idleness, translation of Hadrian’s address to the soul, 98

  Cambridge University, 13–14, 144; see also Downing College

  Camus, Albert, 71

  Čapek, Karl: R.U.R., 100

  Carcanet Press, 76

  Carlyle, Jane, 23

  Carlyle, Thomas, 23

  censorship vs. freedom of expression, 84–5, 123

  Chambers Twenty-First Century Dictionary, 147

  charitable donations, requests for, 13–14, 33, 87, 93, 109, 143–5

  Chateaubriand, François

  Auguste René, vicomte de, 86

  Chatto & Windus, 11, 76, 108, 162

  Cheadle, the Vicar of, 133–4

  Chesterton, G. K.: ‘The Ballad of the White Horse’, 124

  Chin P’ing Mei (The Golden Lotus), 62

  China and the Chinese: writings, 14–15, 15, 62, 129, 130; zombies, 16

  Church of England Newspaper, The, 59

  Cicero, 106; De Divinatione, 113

  Clark, General Wesley, 53

  Cleese, John, 14

  Climbié, Victoria, 151

  Clinton, Bill, 5

  Cockburn, Claud: I, Claud, 34

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 28, 29–30, 61, 63, 106, 108;

  ‘The Ancient Mariner’, 28–9; Notebooks (on Milton), 30, 119

  Collins, Billy: ‘The History Teacher’, 16

  computers, 4, 23, 36–7, 110, 112, 143; computer games, 87, 108–9; see also virtual reality

  Conquest, Robert, 130–1

  Cook, Robin, 110

  Cornhill Direct, 161–2

  Coronation Street, 7

  Cotton, Charles Caleb: Lacon, 75

  Cowper, William, 25–7; ‘Light Shining Out of Darkness’, 54; ‘The Needless Alarm’, 5; ‘The Negro’s Complaint’, 26–7

  Crabbe, George: The Newspaper, 31, 32

  culture, 157, 161; ministers of, 2, 87, 122; types of, 2–3; see also morals; Zeitgeist

  Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, The, 2

  D., Sister, of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Singapore, 121

  Daily Express, the, 150

  Daily Mirror, the, 150

  Daily Telegraph, the, 5, 74, 155

  Damien, Father, 133

  Dante Alighieri, 54

  Davenport-Hines, Richard, 133

  Dawkins, Richard: River Out of Eden, 121

  Day Lewis, Cecil, 78

  death, 1, 5, 9, 20, 21, 21–2, 22, 111–12, 112, 138–9, 145; and life, 5, 9, 30

  Desire Direct (online magazine), 19

  Dickens, Charles, 128; Hard Times, 143; A Tale of Two Cities, 60–1

  Dickinson, Emily, 8

  doctors, see medical profession

  Dorking Council, gaffe, 7

  Downing College, 14; see also Cambridge University

  Drabble, Margaret, 18

  dreams, 33, 43, 44, 45, 81, 112–13, 136, 139–42, 150, 156, 162–3; in Paradise Lost, 119–21, 164–5

  Dresdner RCM, 40

  drugs, 66–8; drug culture, 2

  Dubus, André: Dancing After Hours, 3–4

  Duncan Smith, Iain, 2

  EastEnders, 7, 89–90, 122

  Eco, Umberto, 54

  Economist, The, 99

  Egerton, Colonel Clement, 62

  ego, the, 26; see also ‘moi’

  electronic typewriter, 35–7

  Eliot, T. S., 46, 140, 156, 157, 163; ‘Four Quartets’, 156;

  ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, 156; Selected Essays, 131–2; The Waste Land, 106, 131

  Eliot, George, 61; Middlemarch, 15

  Elizabeth II, HM the Queen, 146

  Ellis, David, 126

  Enright, D. J., passim; 169;

  childhood, 31, 38, 51; and Downing College food, 10; horoscope, 7, 83, 102, 152; Wandsworth Social Services report, 164; see also dreams works cited or quoted: A Faust Book, 18; ‘Beyond belief’, 88; ‘Half Price Memory: PC ad’, 37; ‘Let us have medicos’, 137; Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor, 122; The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 115; The Oxford Book of Death, 59, 93; Play Resumed, 33; Signs and Wonders, 59; The Terrible Shears, 101

  Enright, George, 20

  Enright, Grace, 78, 101

  Enright, June, 20

  Enright, Madeleine, 82, 162, 166, 167; and apple tree, 165

  Eric, 138

  Esther, 109 euphemisms, 21, 36, 147, 166; and dysphemisms, 163–4; see also language

  Evening Standard, the, 15

  Ewart, Gavin, 8, 166

  faith, see belief

  Farb, Peter, 34, 34–5; Word Play, 34

  Fitzgerald, Penelope: ‘The Axe’, 21; The Blue Flower, 65

  Flaubert, Gustave, 42;

  Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues, 143

  Fleming, Ann, 147

  Fleming, Ian, 147

  foot-and-mouth disease, 95–6

  football, 151; see also David

  Beckham

  Fowler, H. W., 147; see also R.

  W. Burchfield

  Freud, Sigmund, 44 (‘Ziggy’), 78

  Full Monty, The, 34

  gaffes, 7, 106, 126, 147–8, 162

  Gaitskell, Hugh, 147

  Gale Research Inc., 1, 161

  Genesis, 54–5

  Gide, André, 51

  Ginzburg, Natalia, 41

  Gladys, 93

  God, incidental references to, 52, 53, 54, 69, 99, 121, 132, 150; see also religion

  ‘God’s Total Quality Management Questionnaire’, 24–5

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgan
g von, 1, 30, 31, 62, 72, 92, 117–18, 128, 129, 148; The Diary, 117–18; Elective Affinities, 118; Faust, 118; Roman Elegies, 117–18; The Sorrows of Young Werther, 116; Wilhelm Meister, 65

  Golden Legend, The, 19

  Goncourt brothers, 42

  grammar, 17–18, 33, 34, 36, 40–1, 104–5, 149; see also hyphens; language; words

  Green, Henry, 56, 57

  Greene, Graham, 100

  Gross, John: A Double Thread, 89; The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, 42

  Guardian, the, 58, 150

  ‘Gwendolen’, 42

  Hadaway, Harry, 40

  Hamburger, Michael, 27

  Hampstead and Highgate Express, the, 3

  Hardy, Thomas, 106

  Harris, Professor Roy, 110

  Harris, Thomas: Hannibal, 73–4, 150

  Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp, 55

  Haverty, Anne: The Far Side of a Kiss, 13

  Hawkes, David, 62–3

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 140

  Hazlitt, William, on Coleridge: 29; ‘On Disagreeable People’, 13; Liber Amoris: The New Pygmalion, 12–13

  heaven, hell and purgatory, 85–6; see also Christopher Marlowe

  Hecht, Anthony, 68, 68–9; ‘Green: An Epistle’, 68

  Heine, Heinrich, 117; ‘Die Loreley’, 162

  Heller, Erich, 116

  Herodotus, 55, 66–7, 90

  Hervey, James: Meditations among the Tombs, 29

  Hilton, Tim: John Ruskin: The Later Tears, 146

  Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 70

  Hoggart, Paul, 17

  Hoggart, Richard, 70, 87–8, 100; Between Two Worlds, 37; The Uses of Literacy, 87

  Holmes, Richard: Coleridge: Darker Reflections 1804–1834, 62

  Holtby, Winifred, South Riding, 18

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley: ‘My own heart let me more have pity on’, 69

  hospitals, 21, 111, 136; experiences in, 4, 41–2, 43–4, 93–4, 96–7, 106, 107–8, 112, 137–8, 166–9;

  Bolingbroke Hospital, 43;

  Royal Marsden, 167–8; St

  George’s, 43, 93, 138, 166, 168

  Howard, Philip, 57

  Howarth, Herbert, 156

  Hoy, Philip, 68

  humanism, 8, 153; see also morals

  Hume, David, 6; ‘On the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature’, 6

  hygiene for SM practitioners, 74

  hyphens, 110–11

  identities, 83–4, 98; mistaken, lost, stolen or misspelt, 4, 23, 84, 109–10, 144, 151–2, 167, 168; see also soul

  ill health and illness, 4–5, 21, 22, 23, 43–4, 90, 107, 111, 136, 143, 145

  inaccuracies, 147–8, 155–6, 161–2; see also gaffes; spelling; words

  Independent, the, 60, 150

  Independent on Sunday, the, 23–4, 148

  Ingrams, Richard, 40

  irony, 30, 46

  James, Clive, 41

  James, Henry, 61

  James, William, 6, 74

  Jandl, Ernst: ‘nichts und etwas’, 27

  Japan, 98, 155–6; fatal wartime misinterpretation?, 34–5

  Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views, 155–6

  Jay, Sir Antony, 143

  Jenkins, Hilary, 157–9

  Johnson, Samuel, 38, 111; The Idler, 63; The Rambler, 63–4

  Josefina, 75

  Joyce, James: Portrait of the Artist, 11

  Kafka, Franz, 33

  Kermode, Sir Frank, 47

  Killick, John, 165

  King, Francis, 155–6

  Kipling, Rudyard, 78; Kim, 144

  Klima, Ivan: Between Security and Insecurity, 84

  Knights, L. C., 97

  knowledge, 30, 153

  Kohl, Helmut, 106

  Kraus, Karl, 31, 37, 79, 111

  Krebs, Sir John, 40

  Kristeva, Julia: New Maladies of the Soul, 99

  Lambeth Conference, 1998, 8–9

  Lampson, Parisoula, 149

  Lanchester, John: The Debt to Pleasure, 17

  language, 55, 136, 154–5;

  Coleridge on, 29; first, 54–6; of junk mail, medical warnings, press, reviews, etc., 20–21, 23, 24–5, 38–9, 45–6, 46, 53–4, 56, 65, 73–4, 86, 91–2, 103–4, 135, 145, 150, 151–2, 164; see also personal advertisements; press; words

  languages, 114–5

  Larkin, Philip, 156–7

  Last of the Summer Wine, The, 162–3

  Lawrence, D. H., 126

  Leach, Christopher, 45

  Leamington Spa Observer, 151

  Leavis, F. R., 14, 61, 97, 155

  Leavis, Q. D., 10, 61; Dickens the Novelist, 61; Fiction and the Reading Public, 61

  Lee Kuan Yew, 122

  Leeds University, 77

  Lessing, Doris, 122

  Levi, Primo, 40–1, 44

  Lewinsky, Monica, 5, 23

  Lewis, Jeremy, 76, 166; Kindred Spirits, 76–7

  Lewis, Petra, 136

  Leys, Simon (Pierre Ryckmans), 125; The Angel and the Octopus, 149

  Li Yü (or Li Houzhu), 129

  Lispector, Clarice, 83; The Hour of the Star, 70–1

  Literary Guide to London, 147

  literature, see writers and writing

  London Library, 1

  London Magazine, 56

  London Review of Books, the, 80, 87, 125, 133, 154

  London Underground, 151

  Lowell, Robert, 131

  Luke, David, 117–18

  Lurie, Alison: Real People, 39

  McCartney, Paul, 155

  McGough, Roger, 155

  McGown, Jill: Redemption, 79

  McNally, Terrence: Corpus Christi, 92

  Maitland, F. W., 14

  Mandelson, Peter, 5

  mankind, 6; see also humanism, morals

  Mann, Thomas, 128; Doktor Faustus, 3

  Marlowe, Christopher: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, 85

  Marvell, Andrew: ‘A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body’, 44

  Marx, Groucho, 52

  Maturin, Charles Robert: Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobran, 29

  May, Derwent: Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement, 105

  medical profession, 3, 22, 93, 107, 167; joking with, 7, 97

  Millennium Dome, the, 151

  Millay, Edna St Vincent, 106

  Mills & Boon, 148

  Milos̆ević, Slobodan, 53

  Milosz, Czeslaw: ‘Preface’, 27–8; ‘A Silenced Zone’, 156

  Milton, John, 30, 54, 122; Lycidas, 106; Paradise Lost, 15, 119–21

  ‘moi’, the, 68–70, 98, 107, 155; DJE’s, 70, 72–3, 107

  money, 73, 124; making, 14, 101; from writing, 10, 11

  Monroe, Marilyn, 116

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 28, 85, 101, 107, 112, 113, 148–9; on the human condition, 111; ‘On the vanity of words’, 17

  Montefiore, Janet, 11

  morals, 6, 31, 127, 166

  Morning Post, the, 29

  Mowlam, Dr Mo (Marjorie), 60, 61

  Mslexia magazine, 48–9

  Mugnier, the Abbé, 86

  Murdoch, Iris, 76

  Murray, John: A Gentleman Publisher’s Commonplace Book, 110

  Musil, Robert, 3, 98; ‘Literary Remains in my Lifetime’, 71; The Man Without Qualities, 3, 18–19, 43, 92, 142, 165

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 105

  Nagel, Thomas, 30–1; Mortal Questions, 22

  Naipaul, Sir Vidia, 122

  National Health Service, 2, 41–2, 42, 74, 90, 97

  New Puritans, the, 126–9, 130

  New Testament, Tyndale vs. Authorized Version, 82

  New York Review of Books, the, 126

  newspapers and other media, 31, 32, 88, 100, 124, 148, 168 see also press, television

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 37, 69, 74, 98, 103

  Nightingale, Florence, 133

  Nilsen, Dennis, 49

  Nisbet, Robert: Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary, 102–3

  Nunn, Trevor
, 14

  Observer, the, 150 old-fartism, 42–3, 92, 166; see also past, the glorious …

  Oldie, The, 86, 151–2, 163

  Oliphant, Margaret, 23, 61

  Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel, 57

  Orwell, George (Eric Blair), 50

  Owen, Wilfred: Preface, 123–4

  Oxford University Press, 2, 41, 61–2, 66, 76

  P., Dr G. (DJE’s GP), 106–7

  Paeonians and Perinthians, 90–1

  painting, 62

  Paris Review, the, 56

  Parris, Matthew, 60

  Pascal, Blaise, 30, 53, 62, 69, 71; Pensées, 68, 71

  past, the glorious, and inglorious present, 42–3, 72, 113–14, 165, 166; see also old-fartism

  personal advertisements, 23–4, 79–81, 126

  philistinism, 123; see also money; Zeitgeist

  pidgin English, 34

  Plath, Sylvia, 115–16, 116, 150

  Play (The Times), 65

  PN Review 138, 165

  poetry, 1, 27–8, 29, 62, 63, 116, 121, 127, 129–31, 135, 157

  political correctness, absurdities of, 113–14, 147

  Pomponius Atticus, 112

  Pope, Alexander, 16, 42

  Pope, the: John Paul II, 85

  pornography, 19–20, 49, 79, 84, 124

  postmodernism, 16–17, 72, 147, 155, 159

  Prayer Mat of Flesh, The (The Before Midnight Scholar), 130 press, the, language of, 2, 5; see also language; newspapers

  Prévert, Jacques: Paroles, 88

  Proust, Marcel, 16, 86; À la recherche du temps perdu, 31, 83, 149, 162–3

  Pujam, André, 91

  Radio Times, the, 56

  Reich-Ranicki, Marcel, 63

  religion, 5, 71, 135, 142–3, 161;

  the Christian Church, 133–4, 135

  Richardson, Samuel: Pamela, 12

  rights, right and wrong, of people and animals, 48–50

  Rossetti, Christina, 19; Time Flies: A Reading Diary, 19

  Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 99

  Ruskin, John, 146

  Saddam Hussein, 149

  Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, comte de, 132–3

  St Aubin de Terán, Lisa, 75

  Saint Paul, 19

  Santayana, George, 44

  Scannell, Vernon, 56, 57, 59–60; Feminine Endings, 116

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 141

  Scrutiny, 144

  Scupham, Peter, 112

  self, the, see ‘moi’

  Selzer, Richard, 139

  sex, 113–14, 142, 148, 149, 150

  Shakespeare, William, 37–8, 92; Antony and Cleopatra, 121; Hamlet, 32, 166; King Lear, 44; Macbeth, 63–4; Richard II, 123

  Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, 12

  Showalter, Elaine, 154–5

  Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch’ien), 14–15, 167; Historical Records, 14

  Simms, Jacqueline, 62

  Singapore, 48, 77, 121, 122

  Sisson, C. H.: ‘Easter’, 51;

  ‘Looking at Old Note-Books’, 1; ‘The Mirabel Sea’, 35

 

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