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Fifty-four
I know I’m prejudiced, but I don’t think it helps to be a huge success early in life. Too much struggling to keep up the good work, too many people saying (cf, Woody Allen) that they liked the earlier funnier stuff better, too much of a sense that life is a long, slow dwindling of [...]
Oxford, Ho!
Given my inability to recite a single line of Paradise Lost, I doubt they’d let me anywhere near their English department, but I do love the literary festival. Probably because I’ve had some of my best audiences there — must be something in the drinking water. And this year will be better than ever because [...]
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