The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
Friday, July 13, 2018
Dici ei Pilatus: Quid est Veritas? - poem
Dicit ei Pilatus: Quid est Veritas?
Pontius Pilate was probably being flippant
When he asked of a prisoner, “What is truth?”
But he was an administrator, and so
He possibly did not know
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