“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” (Dr Johnson) This makes good sense—until you start to think about it. The simple truth is that money can come in […]
Topic: ‘demon driver’
The three types of money
A sad fact about power
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (Lord Acton) The second half of Acton’s comment is so striking that it’s easy to overlook the first part: any power […]
Stardom
Fame, notoriety, reputation, honour, celebrity. Stardom. “A celebrity,” said an American academic in the 1950s, “is someone who is famous for being well-known.” I have the sense that this particular […]
The obvious winner?
I was 19 at the time. (15 when I fell under the spell of the English Hollywood star Dawn Adams—pictured from that period.) I had just got off the underground […]
A nod to a ‘demon’
A Yeats poem from the late 1930s, when politics loomed large—testifying to the power of one particular ‘demon driver’. Politics “In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings […]