22 MARCH 2008, page 48
Having The Last Laugh
Lloyd Evans T RICKSTER M AKES T HIS W ORLD : M ISCHIEF , M YTH AND A RT by Lewis Hyde Canongate, £16.99, pp. 417, ISBN 9781847672247 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 H......
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
W hy do we write? Dr Johnson had no doubts, or pretended to have none: ‘no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money’. This is manifestly false, unless you make writing......