We owed much to the composing-room foreman (or "clicker"), the splendid Mr Benney, who quietly took every incompetence and inconsequence from the editorial staff.
To such inconsequence had General Francisco Franco, caudillo de España (por la gracia de Dios, indeed, or so he proclaimed) reduced a country that once was the greatest power in Europe and held the grandest overseas empire in the world.The fault was not his alone: socially, politically and economically, Spain, torn by coups and civil wars, had been dropping behind the rest of Europe for 150 years.
This loose-limbed, bubbling, funk squib is by no means the strongest track on it, and his voice now and again distorts by being too close to the microphone, but at 1 42 minutes it soars, gloriously, into the ether – no matter the relative inconsequence of the remainder.
The speech as recorded in the inscription, in spite of irrelevance, inconsequence, and fondness for digression (much of which is absent in the version of Tacitus), shows that Claudius knew what he wanted and that he appreciated the latent forces of Roman tradition.
About my replacement self, I feel only average levels of attachment and revulsion, inconsequence.
What makes it truly frustrating is that, somewhere in the stream of inconsequence and obstreperousness, there are usually a few nuggets of gold.
And so it is with Servillo, the unhurried flâneur, hands clasped behind his back, like a suave Italian cousin of Monsieur Hulot, ushering us through a string of episodes that, without his mild gaze, would fray into inconsequence.
The single day's worth of action presents us not with a sense of the world's repletion, as in the circadian "Ulysses" or "Mrs. Dalloway," but of its grotesque inconsequence.
Dark in my infancy and early childhood, fading somewhat as I got older, but never fading to a state of inconsequence, never ceasing to be the first thing people noticed about me, head on, never ceasing to shock those who had come at me from the left side.
Describing the "Rabbit" books to a new reader, one is stunned to be reminded of their apparent inconsequence: the hero isn't a great bootlegger who gets killed, or a boy on a raft with a runaway slave, or even a suicidal small-town gent or an exotic expatriate in Spain.
The narrator of "The War of the Worlds" calls the arrival of the Martians "the great disillusionment," an interplanetary bulletin delivering the bad news of humanity's fragility and inconsequence.
