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From: The Spectator
Date: 19980103
Author:Stamp, Gavin

To die in your sleep, with a volume of P.G. Wodehouse in your hand, must be the best way to go. Such was the recent end of the historian of mediaeval architecture, John Harvey -- reading Summer Lightning. And his obituary in the Daily Telegraph told me much more that was sympathetic: that he loathed car worship and the cult of `the great God juggernaut, with His shrine the Garage -- attached to every dwellingunit; holocausts of petrol sacrificed to Him daily, washed down with oil; lavare est orare: Sundays reserved for ceremonial washing of His Sacred Body, and for grovelling prostrate ...

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