Usually, when I try to write, my mind and thoughts are veritably engrossed in it. The words start turning out into sentences and my eyes remain focused on scanning each line but meaning to the whole length of the story remains in place after the editorial pruning at the paragraph-level. The mistakes are cleared closely and neatly so as to make the writing compact.
Before laying the basic intention of writing, a few important lines from the Yorkshireville Enquirer dated January 22, 1880, needs to be mentioned here. It goes thus: “What could be more intensely American than the act of Yankee, on visiting an Italian convent and being shown a lamp which had not been permitted to go out in five centuries, quickly stepped up to it and blew it out, with a remark, ” Well, I rather guess, it’s out now.”
Do the above-quoted extracts from an older print hold any kind of similarity with the events that interestingly occurred in Paris? Amid odd the mannerisms of US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, some expected scenes were witnessed. It was the sitting style of Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was said to have once held the post of editor of ‘The Spectator‘ started by two extraordinary essayists viz Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. He was an editor from the year 1999 to 2005.
During his visit to France, the British PM Boris Johnson looked excellently relaxed as was appeared in the widely circulated picture. He adjusted himself fully well into the soft sofa to initiate talks with the more humble French President Emmanuel Macron as he looked humbly before Great Britain’s Prime Minister at the grand Elysee Palace in Paris. At one point in time, he was seen resting his one shoe covered foot up on a splendidly expensive-looking coffee table put on the ground of the magnificent gilded palace hall. From one fine perspective, his laid-back manner was surprising to all. He was ably presented to be quick at making himself at home. He did not even realise any oddity in putting a leg on the beautifully cut small piece of designer furniture.
He was reported to have even played the role of a ‘clown‘ during his political career time and again. Could this relaxed posture coincide with the quality of his unique personality? Taking to flurried camera persons while resting his foot briefly or more on a small table in an unexpected manner, he did not feel odd even an inch, while his French counterpart Macron was greatly amused at his manner.
Gone are the days of the royal etiquettes when too much care and attention were observed before royalty. Strangely enough, being a PM of the United Kingdom where Queen Elizabeth II is head of the country and the defined etiquette is followed in strict order, but he has missed the manner. It will not be off the mark to say that Trump had crossed this very sort of line brazenly during his meeting with the Queen during his visit to Britain. Boris’s easy but informal style of sitting did give an indication of a friendly conversation with the French President, who was all the more observing a respecting posture. Boris was quite full into the space of the one-person sofa but Emanuel Macron was not sitting inside the space of the sofa. His awkwardness may not have been unstoppable at that odd moment. Boris might have come in that relaxed position because he would have imagined his editorial days at ‘The Spectator‘ from 1999 to 2005 and so before the press photographers, he liked to observe wholly a relaxing posture.
When we go through the essays of Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, an Irish writer, and politician, it comes to our understanding that they made attempts to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality. It is such a shame that the Spectator is now generally unread. We ought to envoy an age that could boast a lifestyle magazine of such quality. However, not only the contents of the periodical vanished but the fineness of decorum and dignity has also lost into the dirt of time.
If Boris could go to that lengthy leg posturing, Trump was no less than him if we go by the latest news report. He jokingly said he wanted to award himself the Medal of Honor, the highest military honour in the USA. He extended the comment while addressing the American veterans at their 75th annual national convention. His aides advised him that he did not qualify.
It seems to me like both personalities remain unaffected, unpretentious, unassuming, and look plain, simple and understated. By the way, it was not long ago Donald Trump said something unique about Boris Johnson, that Boris was famous as Britain’s Trump and even connected his popularity with this practicality. Side by side he also praised him as a good man. How could he be not good if elected as the new Tory leader?