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Declining But Not Yet Falling

Deryla Murphy CITY OF DJINNS: A YEAR IN DELHI by William Dalrymple HarperCollins, £16.99, pp. 352 O ver the millennia, ghastly and glori- ous things happened in Delhi, often......

All Is Seared With Rough Trade; Bleared, Smeared With Toil

Alan Ross A len Ginsberg, writing to Jack Ker- ouac and quoted by Andrew Sinclair, described Francis Bacon as having the aspect of an English schoolboy and the soul of a satyr.......