"Anachronism" am I, eh Jim?

And do you really imagine your brand of old-fashioned do·gooding left·wingery represents the oh-so-happening present and the bright-and-shining future?

You've been looking at too many of those idealistic uplift sites, my dear old friend, where the young couple with the hammer'n'sickle embroidered underwear stand among the heaped yellow cornstooks and gaze so confidently into the effulgent dawn.

A bit of a yesterday's image, it seems to me. But that's no doubt because I'm an anachronism. I was, after all, born in the reign of George V and lived thru the excitement of the Abdication crisis and the whole of WWii...

So what can I know of the present world!

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