Kingsley Amis Quote

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

Lucky Jim (ed. Penguin UK, 2000) - ISBN: 9780141934846

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had ...

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had ...

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had ...

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had ...