Some unwilled perversity of my own

This is a placeholder for a piece I have to write about the folly of wishing that the occupation of Iraq will fail — we’re stuck with it, and must hope and work for it to succeed — but I have been overwhelmed by deadlines, and it will have to wait. I have both a Times oped on gay bishops and a Guardian piece on group selection to finish by this evening. Tomorrow to lunch with the next Bishop of Durham, and then to London Library before — I hope — a drink with Francis S, whose new book arrived in proof yesterday. So, the depressive mutters, still plenty of scope for failure.

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3 Responses to Some unwilled perversity of my own

  1. Oliver Morton says:

    Is Francis S the excellent Mr Spufford? In which case wish him well from me, and tell him I’d like to see proofs, too, if there were any around…

  2. Rupert says:

    He was hanging around in dodgy Usenet back alleys a couple of years ago, wanting to buy a copy of Elite ‘for research purposes’. You mean… it was for real?

    R

  3. el Patron says:

    Oliver: yes. It is F Spufford. I’ll pass your request on to him. The Elite chapter was realy very fine, I thought. Maybe we should organise a grappa exchange. The post has just bought 1200 pages of Yeats biography to read and digest before profiling the author by the end of th emonth. I will need grappa at some stage.

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