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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 compendiums like {{br|The Complete Molesworth}}. | 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 compendiums like {{br|The Complete Molesworth}}. | ||
Molesworth — a ner’er do well 12 year old at a Boarding School that may well have inspired Hogwarts — stands on neither form nor ceremony in how he expresses himself. For our age of obsessive modern formalism, nigel is the embodiment of unapologetic, old-fashioned ''substance''. He cares no fig for spelling or grammar — “uterly wet and weedy” he would sa, no doubt — but, through a savant genius for subversion of the vernacular, has still generated his own idiom which — [[as any fule kno]] — survives to this day in publications as august as ''Private Eye'', ''Test Match Special'' and (cough) the [[Jolly Contrarian|jole contrian]]. | Molesworth — a ner’er do well 12 year old at a Boarding School that may well have inspired Hogwarts<ref>Seriously: moleworth’s latin pla was called Hogwarts, and there are [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/whence-hogwarts-rowling-molesworth-influence-and-intertextuality/ those who have burst forth in print on this thesis].</ref> — stands on neither form nor ceremony in how he expresses himself. For our age of obsessive modern formalism, nigel is the embodiment of unapologetic, old-fashioned ''substance''. He cares no fig for spelling or grammar — “uterly wet and weedy” he would sa, no doubt — but, through a savant genius for subversion of the vernacular, has still generated his own idiom which — [[as any fule kno]] — survives to this day in publications as august as ''Private Eye'', ''Test Match Special'' and (cough) the [[Jolly Contrarian|jole contrian]]. | ||
Molesworth cuts through where the insipid bromides we have become accustomed to do not: his language and his clarity of vision survives the ages: | Molesworth cuts through where the insipid bromides we have become accustomed to do not: his language and his clarity of vision survives the ages: | ||
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*[[Molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter]] | *[[Molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter]] | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Molesworth molesworth on Wikipedia] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Molesworth molesworth on Wikipedia] | ||
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