flown with insolence and wine
On T.H. White,
A pupil remembers "coming across him once in the lunch hour by the bathing pool, alone, lying on his face sunbathing, without clothes on. He said he often did this at that time because there was no one around to be shocked. He then said that there was no point in getting brown all over unless you had someone to go to bed with. He then said that people should go to bed together much more (and not just for sexual purposes), when they had nothing better to do, because it was natural and delightful to do so. Not only women, but men, boys, animals, even inanimate objects (he mentioned lamp-posts)."
It is that last parenthetical comment that just kills me. Actually this neatly sums up my idea of White: peculiar, shocking, lonely, with strange ideas and irreverent humour.
A pupil remembers "coming across him once in the lunch hour by the bathing pool, alone, lying on his face sunbathing, without clothes on. He said he often did this at that time because there was no one around to be shocked. He then said that there was no point in getting brown all over unless you had someone to go to bed with. He then said that people should go to bed together much more (and not just for sexual purposes), when they had nothing better to do, because it was natural and delightful to do so. Not only women, but men, boys, animals, even inanimate objects (he mentioned lamp-posts)."
It is that last parenthetical comment that just kills me. Actually this neatly sums up my idea of White: peculiar, shocking, lonely, with strange ideas and irreverent humour.