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Status anxiety

If I were a cultural Marxist, I might be thinking about giving up

But I have faith that they’ll carry on, at the Royal Court and elsewhere

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

In his Memoirs, Kingsley Amis includes a story about meeting Roald Dahl at a party in the 1970s. Dahl advises him to write a children’s book — ‘That’s where the money is’ — and brushes aside his objection that he doesn’t think it would be any good. ‘Never mind, the little bastards’d swallow it,’ he says.

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