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The Angry Island: Hunting The English
Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the EnglishThe English are naturally congenitally collectively and singularly livid much of the time In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges They're incensed incandescent splenetic prickly touchy and fractious They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island nursing and picking at their irritationsPerhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury the English have throughout their history come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign Good manners and queues roundabouts and garden
sheds and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge They've built things discovered stuff made puddings written hymns and novels and for people who don't like to talk much they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings In this hugely witty personal and readable book AA Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye
sheds and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge They've built things discovered stuff made puddings written hymns and novels and for people who don't like to talk much they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings In this hugely witty personal and readable book AA Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye
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