8 JULY 1989

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[Sir: I am in an even worse case than David...]

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Sir: I am in an even worse case than David Buckley (Letters, 10 June). Like him, I married a foreigner while living abroad. But my wife is a citizen of a communist country, so...

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Relative confusion

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Relative confusion Sir: May 1, as his sole surviving relative, correct Mr Christopher Webb's (Letters, 10 June) silly confusion of my uncle, Alastair Forbes, late of Harrods...

Whitbread vs. Whitley

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_LE TTER S Whitbread vs. Whitley Sir: I refer to Edward Whitley's article, 'The Peer and the Beerage,' in your 24 June edition. Even allowing for journalistic licence and an...

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Blasphemers

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Blasphemers Sir: Mr Roy Kerridge ('Verses and worse', 24 June) refers slightingly to English people who have never read Satanic Verses but fearlessly support the cause of...

No pyjamas

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No pyjamas Sir: Perhaps Wendy Cope (Television, 3 June) saw my Channel Four film, 'She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjmas', last year on television. Julie Walters does indeed strip off...

Brief lives

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Brief lives Sir: It has been decided to compile a volume of omissions from the DJictonary of National Biography from the beginnings to 1985 (the 1981-85 supplement will be...

In search of Durham

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In search of Durham Sir: May I put Alexandra Artley's article ('Vegetable Mappa Mundi', 10 June) into context by saying that Durham's threatened allotments are but the tip of...

Half-cut and Dryden

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Half-cut and Dryden Sir: P. D. James (Diary, 17 June) may be pleased (or saddened) to know that John Dryden (Poet Laureate) in 1685 wrote: We'll toss off our Ale till we canno'...

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Meeting a Submarine

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Meeting a Submarine Seen by a creature on the water-skin it was a lump; the horizon stung by a bee was swelling; something barbed was stuck in the ocean. A fishing-boat - no, a...

THE INK DARK MOON: LOVE POEMS BY ONO NO KOMACHI AND IZUMI SHIKIBU translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani

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Crying for the moon Graeme Wilson THE INK DARK MOON: LOVE POEMS BY ONO NO KOMACHI AND IZUMI SHIKIBU translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani Charles Scribnzer's Sons,...

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MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux

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Going on about sex David Profumo MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux Huamish Hamilton, £13.95, pp.468 I T7 ere is an emphatic disclaimer prefacing this novel, to the effect...

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: THE FLEET STREET MEMOIRS OF SIR DENIS HAMILTON

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His life and good Times Alan Watkins EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: THE FLEET STREET MEMOIRS OF SIR DENIS HAMILTON Hamish Haniblon, f15.95, pp. 208 .Aifter his retirement, Sir Denis...

BEN JONSON: A LIFE by David Riggs

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Bill and Ben Peter Quennell BEN JONSON: A LIFE by David Riggs Harvard Univerlity Press, f27.95, pp.899 It is a brave biographer who lets a 'trained psychoanalyst' loose on...

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The Voysey Inheritance (Cottesloe)

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Theatre The Voysey Inheritance (Cottesloe) The morality of money Christopher Edwards This is an accomplished revival of Harley Granville-Barker's best-known play. Written...

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Fairy stories

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Television Fairy stories Wendy Cope Though I probably shouldn't mention the same programme three weeks running, I was again struck by something in The Child's Eye (Channel...

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Low life

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Low life A rum do Jeffrey Bernard Barbados MB ack in my room after a breakfast of corned beef hash, a solid foundation for a day out here, I found an invitation from Theo...

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