Tuesday, August 21, 2007

End of smoking or end of literature

What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis?The answer is, of course, that if they were to come back to life in Gordon Brown's Britain and wanted to go out to their club, or a restaurant or café, they would not be allowed to indulge in a habit which sustained them during the most creative phases of their lives.The moment they popped their favoured cigar, cigarette or pipe between their lips and lit up, they would have been fined on the spot.(...more>>)
and the rebuke

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