Tongue-in-cheek indexing
12/09/08 16:11 Filed in: indexing
Hugh
Trevor-Roper takes revenge on his Cambridge college
via the the index:
Peterhouse Blues posting by Henry Farrell. The comments contain some hilarity.
"The index entry for ‘Cambridge Colleges, Peterhouse’ betrayed uncanny parallels, some believed, with Trevor-Roper’s perception of its members in the 1980s: ‘high-table conversation not very agreeable . . . four revolting fellows of; main source of perverts’. Just as admirers of his hero Gibbon often head straight for the footnotes, so the first port of call for connoisseurs of Trevor-Roper is the index."
Peterhouse Blues posting by Henry Farrell. The comments contain some hilarity.