“I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.”
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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
