From Kingsley Amis?s novel Girl, 20.
A young radical is shocked by the lack of reaction from the narrator, a music critic, when he uses the word ?fascist?, and says: ?Don?t you think that?s a bloody serious accusation, to call you a fascist?? ?No I don?t. Nor a communist or a bourgeois or anything else. I just don?t care about any of that, you see.?
The radical looks at the critic in amazement. ?But these are some of the great issues of our time.? ?Of your time, you mean. The great issue of my time is me and my interests, chiefly musical. Can we go indoors now??
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