Wordy Empire
From Paper Monument, British culture is observed by an American writer as a reflection of his own; in both cases he sees a cultural facade papering over Empires fallen and falling.
From Paper Monument, British culture is observed by an American writer as a reflection of his own; in both cases he sees a cultural facade papering over Empires fallen and falling. “The British Empire is now the Empire of Conversation. The distant lands are lost…No one suffers their expertise quite like the American, who will also be down at the pub, also losing an empire.”
