On the way they passed a number of students, all of whom looked rather too respectively dressed for Purefoy’s liking. He was used to people in boots and with torn and patched jeans and with hair that was either very, very long and unwashed or hardly existed at all.........
and the one young woman he met smiled agreeably, which he found most peculiar. At (his last university) women didn’t smile. On the whole they scowled and practiced assertiveness on him”
Quoted from a novel published in 1995, Grantchester Grind by Tom Sharpe.
Written, given the production of Sharpe, probably 30 years ago.
Grantchester Grind is the follow-up book to Porterhouse Blues.
Both are bloody good reads but make sure you have time, they’re hard to put down.
The thing that strikes me (I have been a Sharpe reader since “The Throwback”) is that what he describes is 2024 NZ University and Government practice – although now the sexes would be reversed and most of the males would be in the latter paragraph.
New Zealand is now, thanks to the communist dictatorship, more like a novel than anything real life can throw up.
Please, Please, let the new(ish) Government bring us back to reality.
Mr Luxon, we seriously need your leadership!
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