And as Robinson in Ruins attests again, he's an incisive, poised and frequently hilarious writer, contriver of a prose voice with no equals among contemporary British filmmakers and, in terms of intellectual range and mordant wit, few among recent novelists.
Michael Ondaatje, who recently gave a reading with her in Toronto, says, "When you're reading her work, you're taking in a huge range of intellect and wit and emotion, which are not usually found in the same person".
Established in 2004 by fans, it makes a wide range of wit and wisdom but its take on the Ramones logo celebrating previous episodes of Aussie bashing – with the names of the team in that classic Blitzkrieg Bop typography – is a real gem.
A brilliant art historian and critic with an extraordinarily wide range of interests, Bob brought wisdom and wit to the deliberations of the Painting and Sculpture Committee, of which he was a member from 1973 to 1996.
Surrounded by a host of figures ranging from the wits of the Algonquin Round Table and the nobility of Europe to Noel Coward, Lillian Hellman, Marlene Dietrich, Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Winchell, this Bankhead is all quips, quirks and querulousness.
Grayling struck us as a sort of exemplar of the humanist way of life, moving freely in his responses between an incredible range of topics with humor and wit.
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But we miss the spark of rebellion and wit.
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