Sublime

For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. If the bomb should fall and wipe out every living thing except Miss Brace, George would be happy. That’s the way he would design a world if it were up to him.

When that invisible line is crossed, he no longer cares — he is done with the relationship, permanently. Now he can switch into active-aggression and become openly furious. Now his deeply buried ocean of anger surges up to the surface and he can react to all those defeats and humiliations.

We’ll say we’re upset when really we’re furious. We’re

Uncle Irritable.

A moment later an RAF officer strode into the room and commandeered it without a word being spoken. I had never seen anger of such quality and substance, power and purpose as this man projected. It should have been weighed by the pound and sold as an example.

a few clowns short of the full circus,