Well, that started off well. Then meandered a bit and by the end I hadn’t really got a clue what Matthew Sweet was trying to convey. Anyhow, I sincerely hope Boris is better soon. I for one think he is exactly the right man to be our PM at this time of crisis.
TBH I felt like I was being led into some very dark woods with this article. I was alright at first until I found myself alone in the middle and completely lost. Come on BoJo your county needs you!
Similar. The Telegraph became unreadable as Her Majesty’s Opposition. This piece? I am clueless what to think.
Cheryl Jones
4 years ago
“Boris Johnson is the most corporeal of Prime Ministers. We know his appetites and frailties. He drinks, and sometimes ruins sofas when he drinks. He fucks. He touches himself. He’s always touching himself. It is his most visible form of promiscuity. His fingers thresh at his hair. His belly resists the restraint of the trouser belt and the tucked shirt. His torso struggles inside his suit, like the Rhinoceros in Kipling’s Just So stories who can’t rid his itchy skin of cake crumbs and burned currants”
What a bizarrely grotesque statement of judgement. I’m not sure where to start, but the word ‘projection’ sprung to mind.
We are, I think, of ‘like mind’. My thoughts on reading this weird parody of historical analysis, included the word “grotesque” and, after the quote with which you begin your comment … the word ‘transference’.
Niko Lourotos
4 years ago
It sounds like Matthew is actually sweet on Boris. He certainly seems to spend an unhealthy amount of time imagining the PM’s body, his shapes, his secretions even, in very high resolution detail.
Ot the other hand, he appears to have a steretypically mechanical and sterile view of health. Typical of a bureaucrat. “as if viruses took these attitudes into account” he says. Why yes, Matthew, it is a scientific fact that your emotions affect your health – definitely your immune system. Stress definitely lowers your defenses and laughter raises them.
Well, that started off well. Then meandered a bit and by the end I hadn’t really got a clue what Matthew Sweet was trying to convey.
Anyhow, I sincerely hope Boris is better soon. I for one think he is exactly the right man to be our PM at this time of crisis.
TBH I felt like I was being led into some very dark woods with this article. I was alright at first until I found myself alone in the middle and completely lost. Come on BoJo your county needs you!
Yes, Jennie; I’m from New Zealand, the first thing I read in the morning is the latest on how he’s doing.
Kia Kaha Boris.
I left the Telegraph for fear of left wing trojan horses. I fear I may be on the move pretty soon.
Similar. The Telegraph became unreadable as Her Majesty’s Opposition.
This piece? I am clueless what to think.
“Boris Johnson is the most corporeal of Prime Ministers. We know his appetites and frailties. He drinks, and sometimes ruins sofas when he drinks. He fucks. He touches himself. He’s always touching himself. It is his most visible form of promiscuity. His fingers thresh at his hair. His belly resists the restraint of the trouser belt and the tucked shirt. His torso struggles inside his suit, like the Rhinoceros in Kipling’s Just So stories who can’t rid his itchy skin of cake crumbs and burned currants”
What a bizarrely grotesque statement of judgement. I’m not sure where to start, but the word ‘projection’ sprung to mind.
We are, I think, of ‘like mind’. My thoughts on reading this weird parody of historical analysis, included the word “grotesque” and, after the quote with which you begin your comment … the word ‘transference’.
It sounds like Matthew is actually sweet on Boris. He certainly seems to spend an unhealthy amount of time imagining the PM’s body, his shapes, his secretions even, in very high resolution detail.
Ot the other hand, he appears to have a steretypically mechanical and sterile view of health. Typical of a bureaucrat. “as if viruses took these attitudes into account” he says. Why yes, Matthew, it is a scientific fact that your emotions affect your health – definitely your immune system. Stress definitely lowers your defenses and laughter raises them.
How true.