Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back".
By now the septuagenarian scribbler who was knighted in 2002 might have hung up his boots, staying on to snooze in a genteel Delhi club.
The limp-wristed scribbler would make no trouble, while Trujillo and his generals ran the tyranny.The Americans, who found Trujillo disgusting but necessary (another "our son of a bitch"), had hopes after his death of the equally anti-communist Balaguer.
She was no occultist, or crystal-ball-gazer, or scribbler of cheap Sun-sign columns in the newspapers, which were written by "idiots" and "clowns".
Events include the chance to draw with the design team behind the Shard, a new London skyscraper in development; to paint what you think might lurk beneath HMS Belfast, permanently moored on the river; to vote for the funniest banner in the Battle of the Cartoonists; and to release your inner scribbler with free materials and advice from professionals.
Local bigwigs riled by the words of a scribbler can easily find an assassin (for about 5,000 pesos, $93) to end the matter.
Medieval physician Arnold of Villanova berated Avicenna as "a professional scribbler who had stupefied European physicians by his misinterpretation of Galen".
And in the 19th century, when the works of Bach and Handel were reappraised, Telemann's reputation was reduced to that of a prolific but superficial scribbler.
Even the lowest hack or scribbler tends to be given the benefit of the doubt by his or her peers.
Had the infant scribbler returned to cash in on my literary fame?
As a scribbler myself, I thought that was ace.
