My ancestors have been on that freezing island since Knut the Longbeard. What they were doing there, I couldn’t tell you. Genealogy is fucking tedious, even when it’s your own. And if I did trace one of them back to the middle ages Grandpa Hutton would probably just turn out to be some swineherd who died of pox. But he was there, and he did his bit.
"Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,What the hell is a “glebe”? That’s not the point. The point is that I’m damned if I’ll treat any Turk as my equal, old Etonian or not.
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke..."
What do you think about that, Mr Turko (if you’re reading this)?
Ah, to hell with you.
*Johnsons is great-grandson of Ali Kemal Bey, interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha who, as every schoolboy knows, was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
