Abstract
Q was right to be puzzled. No illiterate peasant from a time past was ever more credulous than an intellectual faced with an ideology, and to prefer to a parliamentary constitution a Bourbon-style royal autocracy, as t. s. eliot did, or (like ezra Pound) a Mussolini dictatorship, or (as many did) the indiscriminate savagery of stalin’s russia was beyond all condoning and all sense. the age was determined to believe that political choices are severely linear, left to right, which is about as plausible as believing the earth to be flat or that phlogiston, as scientists once believed, accounted for the inflammatory element in physical objects. Q felt helpless before such fatuity. “Weave a circle round him thrice,” wrote Coleridge, and Q may often have felt tempted to answer the call.
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