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{{a|devil|{{image|Molesworth|png|I mean just look at him.}}}}Asked to chose his favourite literary character as an inspiration for law, the [[JC]] — after a wistful look at [[A. P. Herbert]]’s curmudgeonly litigant [[Albert Haddock]] — chose of course Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle’s immortal, heroic schoolboy [[nigel molesworth]], self-styled curse of st custards. | {{a|devil|{{image|Molesworth|png|I mean just look at him.}}}}Asked to chose his favourite literary character as an inspiration for law, the [[JC]] — after a wistful look at [[A. P. Herbert]]’s curmudgeonly litigant [[Albert Haddock]] — chose of course Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle’s immortal, heroic schoolboy [[nigel molesworth]], self-styled curse of st custards. | ||
Moleworth doesn’t stand on form or ceremony in how he expresses himself. Through imaginative subversion of the vernacular, molesworth has instead generated his own idiom which — [[as any fule kno]] — survives to this day in respectful publications like ''Private Eye'' and the (cough) the [[Jolly Contrarian|jole contrian]].Wantonly, he eschews convention in favour of clear, forthright communication. He cuts through: his language and his clarity of vision survives the ages: | Moleworth doesn’t stand on form or ceremony in how he expresses himself. In an age of obsessive formalism, nigel is the embodiment of unapologetic ''substance''. Through imaginative subversion of the vernacular, molesworth has instead generated his own idiom which — [[as any fule kno]] — survives to this day in respectful publications like ''Private Eye'' and the (cough) the [[Jolly Contrarian|jole contrian]]. Wantonly, he eschews convention in favour of clear, forthright communication. He cuts through: his language and his clarity of vision survives the ages: | ||
{{quote|{{indent|{{baskerville|Second to swots headmasters like boys who are good at foopball and shoot goals then they can shout ‘Pile in caruthers strate for goal’ or other weedy things from the touchline.}} <br> | {{quote|{{indent|{{baskerville|Second to swots headmasters like boys who are good at foopball and shoot goals then they can shout ‘Pile in caruthers strate for goal’ or other weedy things from the touchline.}} <br> | ||