The Full Monty
Sep 23, 2021
3 minutes
nowadays? It was never a compliment. Doommonger, naysayer, pessimist, gloomy bugger – poor Jeremiah’s tone does not chime with the modern sensibility of upbeat optimism. Not a man for jokes or folderol. But I like a bit of gloom myself, a bit of downbeatery, to leaven things a bit. I remember reading the biblical quote from the Book of Jeremiah, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved”, on a wild October day some 50 years ago and thinking,
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