“The languid way in which he gives you a handful of numb unresponsive fingers is very significant.”
(Carlyle on Wordsworth)
John Lentell
4th August, 1970
Thomas Carlyle
Monday’s Piece
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
(Thomas Carlyle, 1975 – 1881)
John Lentell
30th July, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am – people ought to be modester.”
(Thomas Carlyle, 1795 – 1881)
John Lentell
21st July, 1969
Lentell Soup 