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Showing posts with label Daily Telegraph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Telegraph. Show all posts

06 July 2007

He's mainlining with the angels now

Nobody, but nobody, writes obituaries like the English.

Case in point:
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
Now that, by God, is a lede.

It gets better.

Count Gottfried von Bismarck (Obituary, The Daily Telegraph [UK], 4 July 2007)


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