{"id":1481,"date":"2005-03-17T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2005-03-17T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T12:25:57","slug":"sextator-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Sextator notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked round to the Spectator<\/em> yesterday afternoon to dig out some old cuts of mine from the library. The receptionist\/librarian, a pretty girl in her twenties, let me in and handed me a couple of the bound volumes stacked two deep behind her. While I was making the painful discovery of what a pompous, arrogant little prick I was in 1981, Michael Heath came in and we did the dance of old farts reminiscing. I hadn’t been in the Spec offices since about 1995, even for parties, though there was a time when I almost lived there. “Nothing has changed”, he said, though we were both fatter, and neither of us smoke any more.
\n“Well,” I said. “There seems to be a lot more vigour around the office. The first thing I noticed was that the librarian was reading the Marquis de Sade” — which she was, in a cheap paperback edition from OUP. <\/span>“Oh, it’s dreadful” she said, rallying as best she could. “Absolutely nothing happens. There’s been two people shot, but that’s all.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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