<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Things That Thrill You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing to read for escapism or dreams, <br>only Arthur Mee's Encyclopaedia printed <br>before World War II taken with me when <br>I went for coffee - printed in 1933 - joy in <br>Britain about Broadcasting House and the <br>BBC, commemorate listening to news of <br>the King's demise, marvelling at the new <br>technology, the main announcer being the <br>most loved voice in the British Isles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Told commiserating colleagues of my dire <br>lack of reading matter - An outrage - they <br>exclaimed, having to read that old book - <br>I described a new scene in my Government <br>opera where former official's souls are stuck <br>in an eternal Indaba held in the Government <br>Valhalla, all stoppering their ghostly ears with <br>ectoplasm as a long-winded Chief Director <br>delivers an interminable speech </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a scene in hell! - they exclaimed and <br>ran away - My point exactly - I told their re-<br>treating backs; returned to my desk to read <br>my guru's advice - ‘Being happy is the cor-<br>nerstone of your being, choose things that <br>thrill you' - writing my Opera thrills me, but <br>anglicising French texts on how politicians <br>bankrupted a country in Africa does not, <br>they destroyed their own soul </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a snake swallowing itself</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452411" data-title="Things That Thrill You de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Nothing to read for escapism or dreams, only Arthur Mee's Encyclopaedia printed before World War II taken with me when I went for coffee - printed in 1933 - joy in Britain about Broadcasting House and the BBC, commemorate listening to news of..."></div> </div> </div>

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