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When I was at Oxford I used to read crime novels in the Bodleian Library instead of the books I was supposed to be studying. I would get some odd looks from the librarians when they handed over the bo...

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The Enemy of Promise

25 January 2010

Poor old Cyril Connolly is not much read these days - in fact, he is probably best known for one piercing comment on literary life that he didn't actually say. Usually, the line is quoted as 'the pram in the hall is the enemy of promise', though Cyril went for the rather wordier 'There is no more so...

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