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“... as Eureka-man is to read against On Conoids and Spheroids. It is on this anecdotal Archimedes that Mary Jaeger fastens her attention in Archimedes and the Roman Imagination, painstakingly reinserting each story about him into the text from which it is usually extracted and asking how it fitted the aims of the work, the interests of the author and the ...”

“... statement of un-English vehemence. Un-modern-English, one corrects oneself, passing St Mary Woolnoth’s rusticated walls as one heads down Lombard Street to get another view of Lloyd’s. How did it happen? How was Lloyd’s persuaded to buy this kind of architecture? Its equivalent in gents’ suiting would scandalise the trading floor – a ...”

“... while Shaw extolled temperance and vegetarianism in his ‘healthy for the rest of your life’ Jaeger woollen suit. What did Thompson make of it all? In Heatherley, which records her years in Grayshott, the Hilltoppers often congregate in the post office to toss around ‘quick, clever remarks … like coloured glass balls’. She ‘would sometimes wish ...”