The Voice Of Authority: A Language Game
Do
this.
Don't
move.
O'Grady
says
do
this,
You
get
a
move
on,
see,
do
what
I
say.
Look
lively
when
I
say
O'Grady
says.
Say
this.
Shut
up.
O'Grady
says
say
this,
You
talk
fast
without
thinking
what
to
say.
What
goes
is
what
I
say
O'Grady
says.
Or
rather
let
me
put
the
point
like
this:
O'Grady
says
what
goes
is
what
I
say
O'Grady
says;
that's
what
O'Grady
says.
By
substituting
you
can
shorten
this,
Since
any
god
you
like
will
do
to
say
The
things
you
like,
that's
what
O'Grady
says.
The
harm
lies
not
in
that,
but
in
that
this
Progression's
first
and
last
terms
are
I
say
O'Grady
says,
not
just
O'Grady
says.
Yet
it's
O'Grady
must
be
out
of
this
Before
what
we
say
goes,
not
what
we
say
O'Grady
says.
Or
so
O'Grady
says.
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis, (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London), novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. Amis was educated at the City of London School and at St. John’s College, Oxford (B.A., 1949). His education was interrupted during World War II by his service as a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at universities in Wales, England, and the United States.