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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 | {{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”, made real through the winsome prose real-life schoolmaster Geoffrey Willans and real-world illustrating genius, Ronald Searle, in a series of books published in the 1950s and now available through compensiums like {{br|The Complete Molesworth}}. | ||
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: | 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: | ||