Quaffing the cup that cheers
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of the New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books
You probably know that Magritte picture of a tobacco pipe that bears the legend “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”. It was a favourite among the epicene, black-clad, Derrida-quoting crowd a couple of decades ago. The picture portrays a pipe. But the caption says it is not a pipe. Heavy.
Or not. Auberon Waugh, novelist, cultural gadfly, maestro of for many years, died at
