Friday, May 24, 2024
Bedtime Reading
A.S.F. Gow, "Sir Stephen Gaselee, K.C.M.G. 1882-1943,"
Proceedings of the British Academy 29 (1943) 441-461 (at 446-447):
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Gaselee throughout his life combined with a very retentive memory and a capacity for reading very rapidly a remarkable power of getting things done without appearing to be busy; and where another, after working into the small hours, might choose a novel or other light literature to read himself to sleep, he would take to bed some work of formidable austerity—a Gothic grammar, perhaps, or a Greek text of Gregory of Nazianzus. Fortified by a cigar and a somewhat garish blazer of undergraduate date he would resume the volume in the morning before he got up and not only read but digest it. Much that to most people would have seemed work served him for recreation, and to that fact his remarkable output is partly due.Sir Stephen Gaselee, by Bassano Ltd (National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG x34907):
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