Remeber when the Melissa virus swept the world.? I was writing a column for the New Statesman then, and it was hard to disguise the humiliation I felt when I didn’t get a copy. But it’s OK. The first Bugbear turned up ten minutes ago, all in French. Little things like that mean a lot to a writers’ self-esteem.
I sent a note to Rosamond to warn her, and she replied at once that they had been told about it in school assembly.
My father got his from the Bishop of Ely…
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