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The Government Spokesman Announces That There Is No Truth In The Charges Of Widespread Corruption Within The Cabinet; Nobody Believes Him; He Knows That Nobody Believes Him, We Know That He Knows It, And He Knows It Too.

Imagine Someone Holding Forth On Biology Whose Only Knowledge Of The Subject Is 'the Book Of British Birds,' And You Have A Rough Idea Of What It Feels Like To Read Richard Dawkins On Theology.

What Persuades Men And Women To Mistake Each Other From Time To Time For Gods Or Vermin Is Ideology. One Can Understand Well Enough How Human Beings May Struggle And Murder For Good Material Reasons - Reasons Connected, For Instance, With Their Physical Survival. It Is Much Harder To Grasp How They May Come To Do So In The Name Of Something As Apparently Abstract As Ideas. Yet Ideas Are What Men And Women Live By, And Will Occasionally Die For.

I Say That Virtue Is Really All About Enjoying Yourself, Living Fully; But Of Course It Is Far From Obvious What Living Fully Actually Means.

Most Students Of Literature Can Pick Apart A Metaphor Or Spot An Ethnic Stereotype, But Not Many Of Them Can Say Things Like: 'the Poem's Sardonic Tone Is Curiously At Odds With Its Plodding Syntax.