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Article: Facts of life
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 25, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Along with the rest of the staff, the chaplain at my school
failed to notice that the place had long since been taken over by
Jews and Asians. He was the kind of chirpy Englishman who
Christians think of as "a character" but we Jews prefer to call "a
wanker".
His sermons, which everyone had to sit through on a Friday, came
from an endless, dreary repertoire of anecdotes of his parish days
in some county or other that wasn't London, all involving the same
pitiful cast of quaint English grannies. Neither the setting nor
the characters meant anything to his audience, most of whom had
barely been outside the M25, and whose grannies weren't quaint and
tended to live abroad. The headmaster would ...