Is this the most pretentious article ever published in the Guardian?
"Nor was his whiteness just a question of skin tone. Think of his eyes and nose. Then think of the very word "eye", as it's printed on this page in lower-case letters. If ever there existed a word that was an ideogrammatic, visually onomatopoeic mise en abyme, then that word is "eye". What does it resemble if not a pair of heavy-lidded eyes, forming a minute isosceles triangle with the dainty skewwhiff nose of the "y", a nose uncannily like Jackson's own? Again, I say (and despite the fact that it gave rise to as much mockery as Cyrano's tumescent schnozzle), I thought it as pretty a nose as a putto's in a Tiepolo altarpiece."
2 comments:
They are clearly intoxicated with the exuberance of their own verbosity.
Not to mention as mad as a box of frogs.
I've read worse by Polly Toynbee
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