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I Believe That The Visit Of The Queen To The United States Is An Admirable Occasion To Produce An Historical, Truthful, Sincere, Genuine Analysis Of How The British Monarchy Evolved Into Its Present Situation.

When St. Teresa Of Avila Says, 'our Life In This World Is Like A Night In A Second Class Hotel' I Agree With Her Absolutely; And I Think It's Almost Insulting To God And Man To Suggest That Trivial Events Should Give Rise To Deep Concern On His Part.

Animistic Savages Prostrating Themselves Before A Painted Stone Have Always Seemed To Me To Be Nearer The Truth Than Any Einstein Or Bertrand Russell.

It Was A Somber Place, Haunted By Old Jokes And Lost Laughter. Life, As I Discovered, Holds No More Wretched Occupation Than Trying To Make The English Laugh.

In His Own Lifetime Jesus Made No Impact On History. This Is Something That I Cannot But Regard As A Special Dispensation On God's Part, And, I Like To Think, Yet Another Example Of The Ironical Humour Which Informs So Many Of His Purposes. To Me, It Seems Highly Appropriate That The Most Important Figure In All History Should Thus Escape The Notice Of Memoirists, Diarists, Commentators, All The Tribe Of Chroniclers Who Even Then Existed