Насчет пекинского плоттера - более-менее просто и понятно ...
А вот что за птица "amazon philistine", придется разбираться. Неужто этакая "обывательница-мещанка (или барышня-крестьянка"? И почему тогда amazon?
Походя нашелся ролик с самым началом этой речи (похоже на комеди шоу):
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vide ... /166364536Материалы для размышлений:
"... Although Hall didn’t vote Tory again and had many run-ins with the Thatcher government – viewed by him and many others in the arts world as philistine ..."
"... As the novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi later told the Guardian: ‘England has become a squalid . . . intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian rat-hole, run by vicious, suburban-minded materialistic philistines. ..."
"... Even without an election campaign, Mrs Thatcher as philistine-in-chief was a popular theme with leading thinkers and cultural figures, many of whom spoke to the journalist Graham Turner for a newspaper article he was writing.
Alan Bennett, the novelist and playwright, also condemned Mrs Thatcher as a philistine, while Mary Warnock, the philosopher and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, said she had ‘a total lack of understanding of what universities were about’. ..."
Communication usually fails, except by accident (Osmo A. Wiio)