Saturday, January 11, 2014

Father and stepmother …

… I was a semi-literate truant who read Harold Robbins and the dirty bits in Lady Chatterly. Only my 'wicked' stepmother made me who I am today, writes MARTIN AMIS | Mail Online. (Hat tip, Susan Dundon.)

Kingsley once ‘corrected’ one of Jane’s short stories, regularising her grammar. All his changes were, strictly speaking, technically sound; and all of them, in my view, were marked disimprovements.

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