Watching the English

the intelligent layman

and that reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated

What exactly is the point of all this ludicrous bumping and jumping (not to mention all the equally daft things I’ll be doing tomorrow)?

You try your best to be a maverick iconoclast, and they turn you into a textbook.)

I want to adopt my usual method of getting an unsuspecting research assistant to break sacred social rules while I watch the result from a safe distance.

My arms are all bruised from the bumping experiments.

Following an erratic education in England, America, Ireland and France, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge.

to examine the minutiae of other English

some signs of social inhibition

heaving into view