Moreover, in the course of his narrative (except for the pestilence of 430 and his command in 424) he never gives his authority for a statement.
I loved the piece for its oddity, humour and gift for language, as when Kitson complained of "an insurmountable pestilence of squirrels".
Simone de Beauvoir especially disapproved strongly of Camus's use of a natural pestilence as a symbol for (she thought) fascism - it relieves men of their political responsibilities, she insisted, and runs away from history and real political problems.
And in mine own land, the Four Horsemen of the Bonus Culture did wreak havoc among the markets and a vile pestilence did reign for seven long years.
And yet all are prospering.True, it is more difficult to operate in hot climates than in temperate ones, and disease and pestilence do nothing for labour productivity, but these are hardly spellbinding insights.
Like Camus, who published his existential novel The Plague in 1947, making the pestilence a metaphor for fascism, Winsor highlights the relation of the plague to the corruption, cruelty, decadence and exploitation of Restoration London.
That's when it truly hits us: Is entering South Sudan to enumerate the reasons the country's heading toward failed statehood and tracking down its deposed vice president worth paying 15 grand, risking your life, and enduring the heat, pestilence and hostility for?
But most of all they blamed recent immigrants from tropical Africa for bringing the pestilence to their sleepy settlement of pastel stucco homes.
The mad cow disease fiasco was less like a brutal pestilence on poor wee cows than a metaphor for that flashpoint when ropey, on-the-cheap, pretty stomach-turning policy decisions come home to roost and send everyone bonkers.
"I'll get the biscuits, shall I?" In EastEnders (BBC1), any minor crisis – fire, pestilence, the sword – calls for a nice cup of tea.
She first lays out essential bits about water, compost and pestilence, then offers plans for an herb pesto garden, an Asian stir-fry garden, a vegan raw garden and more.
