What’s Next?

AS a longstanding admirer of Florence King, who retired from this space last issue, I tread here with utmost deference, and considerable apprehension. Also, with a collection of uncertainties.

To begin with: What shall we call this page now? Flo made it The Misanthrope’s Corner. That won’t do. We are a gregarious crowd here at NR, certainly not well enough supplied with misanthropes to offer misanthropy in every issue. In any case, no one could hope to match Flo in this area. She it was who scorned as mere amateurs people who offered, in evidence of their misanthropy, the fact that they had removed the back seats of their cars. Our Flo declared proudly that she generally removed the front passenger seat, too.

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John Derbyshire

Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.

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AS a longstanding admirer of Florence King, who retired from this space last issue, I tread here with utmost deference, and considerable apprehension. Also, with a collection of uncertainties.

To begin with: What shall we call this page now? Flo made it The Misanthrope’s Corner. That won’t do. We are a gregarious crowd here at NR, certainly not well enough supplied with misanthropes to offer misanthropy in every issue. In any case, no one could hope to match Flo in this area. She it was who scorned as mere amateurs people who offered, in evidence of their misanthropy, the fact that they had removed the back seats of their cars. Our Flo declared proudly that she generally removed the front passenger seat, too.