Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
A Window on the Century
Pasternak is said to have raised a window
On a sunny winter day to ask
“Children, what century is it outside?”
A logical question
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.
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
A Window on the Century
Pasternak is said to have raised a window
On a sunny winter day to ask
“Children, what century is it outside?”
A logical question