Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
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Puritanism in the English Civil Wars
i'm delighted to have them called my puritans. And i think picking up on several of the points that jane has made about the kind of the context in which boring emerges, or dulness emerges. I think one of the great strengths that's come through in terms of george the fifth is that he was kind of dull beyond dispute. The reverse of that coin being dependable, reassuring, steady.
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