Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

From a book review in The Spectator*:

       At one time repairs to St George's Chapel, Windsor, were
       suspended to allow 460 men to work at Fonthill in shifts by day
       and by lamplight at night.

*Whose founder once wrote: 'The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day
sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and
assiduous Culture.'

Or, in Beckford's case, by Gravity. (And possibly lamp-lit Nudity.)