Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
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The Importance of a Few More Dull Men and Women Running the World
There is a very, very strong case to be made for analyzing the points in history at which dulness can become very, very, very controversial. And that's what people have been doing since caa sixteenth, seventeenth century onwards. So i think there are points at which we can look for dulness, this sort of moderation, peaceableness,. The kind of h sheer ordinariness that jane was talking about, almost for george the fifth.
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