Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blytheis an English writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He writes a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 November 1922
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american-scientist
He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
envy
No, there's not a lot to envy about the old days. But something has been lost.
long people special
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.