He strikes me as very intelligent, lucid and laidback and gave a brilliant Shakespearean performance in front of the Senate committee.
In the last few days of his ordeal, he says, he was 'still lucid and very, very calm' but could only 'see shadowy, ghostly figures coming in and out of the room'.
In this very well written, lucid and often perceptive book, Kwasi Kwarteng's aim is to reconstruct "what the British empire was really like, from the point of view of the rulers, the administrators who made it possible".
The remaining ten chapters deal with heat, the action of the steam engine and the internal combustion engine being presented in a very simple and lucid manner, and well illustrated by clear diagrams.
They are paintings, they are fabricated, they are fictions - hallucinatory and dreamlike little snares for the mind, painted in a realistic and very physically strong, lucid way (this is the only thing her art got from Rivera), almost like the portraits of Otto Dix, and yet utterly fantastic.
