#even ​Lindsay Shepherd would have to say old Robert was done badly

[thequietabsolute]

so i’ve just finished reading the ‘Oppenheimer trial’ section of the biography, which more or less takes up two-fifths of the book and (*… a scandalised, incredulous sigh), what you’re assailed with is a sort of endless series of increasingly rank, unlawful, calumnious, – i want to stress this also: above all fucking embarrassing – and indefatigably unscrupulous acts of towering corruption that by the time it’s all over the only thing I’m able to compare it to is the various repellent enormities you defeatedly read about in any half reputable history of the Soviet Union

it seems to me at least that Clio, the muse of history, loves her a bit of irony, eh?