2025-07-17
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The Reverend Mr. Davidson's downfall was girls.
Not a girl, not five or six girls even,
not a hundred, but the entire tremulous universe of girlhood.
Shingled heads, clear cheeky eyes, nifty legs, warm blunt-fingered workaday hands,
small firm breasts, and most importantly, Good, strong, healthy teeth besotted him.
A single human life was all too short for him to savor such a universe,
and his awareness of this allowed him to encounter at least a thousand girls during the twenties alone.
Quite early on in his sacred career,
he hit upon an exciting solution to what otherwise might have been an insoluble problem.
He would make girls his special ministry.
And so he set about it with a single-mindedness which in any other circumstances should have brought him a denary.
So that is from Ronald Blythe's book, The Age of Illusion,
which is the history of Britain in the 1920s and 1930s.
Ronald Blythe did not talk like that,
but I think the quality of the material is kind of appropriate to,