I love this passage

[chickenfeet]

The eyes were deepset and icy cold. You thought at once of an animal, though a creature not at all in the stylized manner of the two colonels at my Divisional Headquarters, reminiscent respectively of the dog-faced and bird-faced Egyptian deities. No such artificial formality shaped these features, and to say, for example, that they resembled those of a fox or ferret would be to imply a disparagement not at all sought. Did the features, in fact suggest some mythical beast, say one of those encountered in Alice in Wonderland, full of awkward questions and downright statements?

Anthony Powell - The Military Philosophers

So for those who haven't read the novel, who do you suppose he is describing?

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[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Did I say I love that icon?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You did!

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I still love it.

[poppycat.livejournal.com]

I keep checking back to see if anyone guesses because I want to know!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Nobody's going to guess so here goes...

It's Field Marshal Montgomery.

There is an another interesting description in a letter from GB Shaw to Augustus John.

[poppycat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am now out of my misery:D