FACIAL JUSTICE by L.P. Hartley - has anyone else read it? I think it is a long lost SF masterpiece, with touches of Rhys Hughes here and there, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, plus something intrinsically unique. I am only a short way through it so far.
"People were allowed five minutes a day in which to laugh and get it over, like the interval for coughing which, in earlier days, was sometimes conceded to bronchial subjects at a concert."
"Betafy means beautify."
"Motorists (as they used to be called) were utterly irresponsible in their dealings with the pedestrian public; for their benefit homicide was legalised."
-- L.P. Hartley (Facial Justice 1960)
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The quote from Facial Justice about Ely:
http://weirdmonger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/a-competing-litany.html
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