Fiction Is Life With The Dull Bits

When I Was Very Young, One Of My Favourite Books Was Captain's Courageous And I Suppose One Of The Reasons I Loved It, It Was A Life I Knew I Should Have Had, Learning All The Different Bits Of The Ship And Learning To Catch Fish And Rig Sails And To -all The Things That I Never Learned And I Never Learned The Discipline, But I Hungered After It.

Like A Volvo, Bjorn Borg Is Rugged, Has Good After-sales Service, And Is Very Dull.

In Italy, For The Same Price As A Typical British Hamburger Meal Including Sweet, A Builder's Labourer Could Eat Like A King - Rather Better In Fact, Because Pasta Dishes Gain From Being Kept Simple.

One Way Or Another, All The Poets Of The Thirties And Forties Reacted To Auden, Either By Rejecting Him Or Trying To Absorb Him.

When I Was Young I Never Believed That Australia Was Anything Else Except Blessed. I Thought It Was A Little Dull When I Was Young, But That Was 'cause I Was A Snob.