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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
245
September
14.
There
is
a
ridiculous
Cocker
spaniel
at
the
house
where
we
are
staying.
He
must
have
had
a
love
affair
and
been
jilted,
or
else
he's
a
sort
of
village
idiot.
The
landlady
says
he's
not
so
silly
as
he
looks--but
he
looks
very
silly:
he
languishes
sentimentally,
and
when
we
laugh
at
him
he
looks
"hurt."
To-day
we
took
him
up
on
the
Down
and
it
seemed
to
brighten
him
up.
Really,
he
is
sane
enough,
with
plenty
of
commonsense
and
good
manners.
But
he
is
kept
at
home
in
the
garden
so
much,
lolling
about
all
day,
that
as
E----
said,
having
nothing
to
do,
he
falls
in
love.
The
Saturday
Review
writes:
The
effect
of
the
"Brides
and
the
Bath"
Case
on
people
with
any
trace
of
nice
feeling
is
perhaps
not
particularly
mischievous,
tho'
the
thing
is
repulsive
and
hateful
to
them....
To
gloat
over
the
details
of
repulsive
horrors,
simply
from
motives
of
curiosity--this
is
bad
and
degrading.
What
a
lot
of
repulsive
things
the
nice
refined
people
who
read
the
Saturday
Review
must
find
in
the
world
just
now.
For
example
the
War.
"Simply
from
motives
of
curiosity."
Why
certainly,
no
other
than
these,
concerning
one
of
the
most
remarkable
murders
in
the
annals
of
crime.
And
murders
anyhow
are
damned
interesting--which
the
Saturday
Review
isn't.
Chipples
I
was
surprised
to
discover
the
other
day
that
when
I
talked
of
Chipples
no
one
understood
what
I
meant!
It
proves
to
be
a
dialect
word
familiar
to
all
residents
in
Devonshire
and
designating
spring
onions.
Anyway
you
won't
find
it
in
Murray's
Dictionary;
yet
etymologically
it
is
an
extremely
interesting
word
and
a
thoroughly
good
word
with
a
splendid
pedigree.
To
wit:
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
