While doing the washing up last week, I became aware of William "Will" Woodard Self droning on in his all-too-imitable Eeyorish style on BBC Radio 4’s A Point of View (something about the changing nature of our vision of Utopia) when the following thought popped into my head:
“Will Self is a stupid teenager’s idea of what an intelligent teenager is like.”
I was quite pleased with that.
I'm sure I read somewhere that that description of the odious Fry was by Julie Burchill .
ReplyDeleteIf true, that;s at least one favour she has done the world.
I think the common threads that run between Stephen Fry and Will Self are their spectacular smugness, self-satisfaction and over-bearing levels of self-worth - sadly far too many people believe in them, particularly their publicists who must grow fat on the lardiness of their gravy-trains.
DeleteMs Bullshit says she can't remember saying it - the claim was made on her behalf by her husband. Still, anyone who writes as much as she has will ineviatbly produce a few gems - and this was a particularly fine one. Similarly, Stephen Fry once defined "countryside" as "killing Piers Morgan", which made me howl.
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