Beauty and ideas and the idea of beauty and the beauty of ideas...

[elisi]

"Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Which accounts for my talking so much."

Many thanks to owlsie for pointing this one out. I think I'm in love. And also laughing helplessly...

(Quote above from 'Gaudy Night'.)

Comments

[elisi]

I miss Fry and Laurie as a team. I miss Funny Hugh.
Me too. Surely House must be cancelled soon?

I love that clip - I Facebooked it to my daughter who is currently writing an essay on the Idea of Beauty!
Excellent! What he says is actually perfectly sound. It's just things like 'lovelet' that make it... well. ;)

[gillo]

That's Stephen Fry sending up Stephen Fry, of course. He uses the most outrageous vocabulary when he has a mind to it. Bless.

[elisi]

That man is a veritable cornucopia of delight. ;)