Mr Worsley's Miscellany

Thank you for a fine three months and much hard work. Keep reading boys. p.s. I apologise if you have written something that I have not read or commented on, if this is so, it will be because it is… Continue Reading →

“We’ve got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We’d be lost indeed if we didn’t do that.”

“…a lot of people saying that a thing is so, doesn’t prove it is so. I’m telling you that nobody, nobody really knows what is the true image. They all think they know- just as we think we know, but for all… Continue Reading →

What does it mean to dissemble? Why is David’s father described as ‘implacable’?

“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .” K.H.

The book we are going to read was published in 1955. It was written by someone whose initials are JW (but it is not me). The main character is called David. He has a secret that could get him killed…. Continue Reading →

Louis MacNeice – Snow   The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it.   World is crazier and more of… Continue Reading →

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