2 JANUARY 1982, page 21

Short Stories

Lewis Jones T wish I were a 13-year-old girl; if I were I I should not be sickened by Sylvia Towns- end Warner (or, even better, a 13-year-old boy; then I should not feel guilty......

Revenants

Paul Ableman The Mind's I 'composed and arranged by' Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Den- nett (The Harvester Press pp. 501, £9.95) T he ghost, it seems, is back in the......