Andrew: I was a William fan myself.
Come to think of it, that may be the key to my Katie-phobia. She has
something of Violet Elizabeth Bott about her: “If you don’t let me into
your clubhouse, I shall thrcream and thrcream till I’m THICK!” (Echoes of
Augusta National there, too.) Also Billy Bunter , though to a
much lesser degree. Bunter, as Theodore Dalrymple fans will recall, was the
one who construed magna est veritas et praevalebit as: “The truth is great
and shall prevail a bit.” Which, as an insight into human affairs, is
actually a slight improvement on the Latin….