‘Most of all, I despise his complete obliviousness to the fact that anyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for ‘advanced’ thought in the humanities already knows that his advocates are an amalgamation of hopeless cutthroats, _mumpish_ criticasters, and other incoherent subversive-types.’
‘Bring on the Wodehouse, I say, that sovereign remedy for any _mumpish_ disharmony of mood.’