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Bah Humbug: A Seasonal Antidote in Words and Pictures
A delightful gift book for Christmas which sets out, in words and pictures, to act as a light-hearted antidote to the often excessive sentimentality of the holiday period. Using quotations, poems and witticisms from the greats of world literature this little book turns out to be both sweet and sour and always fun.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2001
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Andrew Langley
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January 8, 2024
A COLLECTION OF BRIEF QUOTATIONS DISPARAGING THE HOLIDAY
Some examples:
D.H. Lawrence: “I’m sick of Jesus, and don’t see why he should go on being born every year.”
Robert Byron: "Xmas Day reproduced itself even here [in Persia]---a dull drizzly day, too much for lunch, that sick feeling at tea, and a nightmare of a party in the evening followed by highly organized parlour games for all. I had the unforeseeable misfortune to win 1st prize. It was appalling. Even now I would have preferred to spend the day by myself in a caravanserai.”
Evelyn Waugh: “By keeping the children in bed for long periods we managed to have a tolerable day.”
Louis MacNeice: “Spending beyond their income on gifts for Christmas---swing doors and crowded lifts and drapery jungles---What shall we buy for our husbands and sons different from last year?”
Kingsley Amis: “I have something which makes it all bearable, the presents, the in-laws, other peoples’ children, the games, the noise, the mess, the ridiculous meals. It consists of one part French cooking brandy, one part Irish whiskey, and four parts fresh milk. The hard part is remembering to have put milk instead of water into one of your ice trays the previous night. Drink the mixture immediately upon rising, while the others are having breakfast or throwing up behind the snowman.”
This book may appeal to some people who strongly dislike Christmas.
Some examples:
D.H. Lawrence: “I’m sick of Jesus, and don’t see why he should go on being born every year.”
Robert Byron: "Xmas Day reproduced itself even here [in Persia]---a dull drizzly day, too much for lunch, that sick feeling at tea, and a nightmare of a party in the evening followed by highly organized parlour games for all. I had the unforeseeable misfortune to win 1st prize. It was appalling. Even now I would have preferred to spend the day by myself in a caravanserai.”
Evelyn Waugh: “By keeping the children in bed for long periods we managed to have a tolerable day.”
Louis MacNeice: “Spending beyond their income on gifts for Christmas---swing doors and crowded lifts and drapery jungles---What shall we buy for our husbands and sons different from last year?”
Kingsley Amis: “I have something which makes it all bearable, the presents, the in-laws, other peoples’ children, the games, the noise, the mess, the ridiculous meals. It consists of one part French cooking brandy, one part Irish whiskey, and four parts fresh milk. The hard part is remembering to have put milk instead of water into one of your ice trays the previous night. Drink the mixture immediately upon rising, while the others are having breakfast or throwing up behind the snowman.”
This book may appeal to some people who strongly dislike Christmas.
December 25, 2018
Pants. But, thankfully recyclable!
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