"rarely want to go supermarket shopping on a Sunday evening until I remember that in Britain it’s essentially forbidden. Add to all this Sunday’s role as a temporal punctuation mark – ‘Reading the papers, drinking tea, ironing, a few more hours, and another week gone,’ as Jimmy Porter puts it in Look Back in Anger – and it’s a bust. You couldn’t invent a more dispiriting day if you tried."
Wednesday 21 November 2018
SUNDAY EVENING SADNESS
"rarely want to go supermarket shopping on a Sunday evening until I remember that in Britain it’s essentially forbidden. Add to all this Sunday’s role as a temporal punctuation mark – ‘Reading the papers, drinking tea, ironing, a few more hours, and another week gone,’ as Jimmy Porter puts it in Look Back in Anger – and it’s a bust. You couldn’t invent a more dispiriting day if you tried."
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