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It is a peculiar pleasure, and one tinged with both admiration and incredulity, to introduce Ms Shannon Drifte’s How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden to a British readership. Peculiar, because the book purports to offer practical guidance on the extraction of petroleum from suburban plots , an enterprise which, for those of … Read more
Dear Shannon, Thank you for your most effusive letter. It is so many years since our university days and my mind is forgetful, but were you the American girl who didn’t go to any lectures and still passed the exams? I am sure that was you, it is good to hear from you after all … Read more
Dear Algernon, Hello again from your university friend! After the improbable success of How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden in North America , where it has been praised as both a manual for living and a cautionary tale for the credulous , my publishers have decided the time has come for a … Read more
Captain (Ret’d) A. J. Thurlow, RN writes… It has been my privilege , nay, my destiny , to have lived much of my existence in close communion with ships. To me, therefore, it seems scarcely credible that one must even argue for their admission to the pantheon of fine art. And yet, given the recent … Read more
Sir, Having now absorbed the more recent contribution in your pages, which, with admirable clarity and intellectual ballast, demonstrated that motor-racing cannot rightly be admitted to the rank of fine art, I must beg your indulgence for a brief note of apology. My earlier letter, dashed off in a gale of outrage, was perhaps intemperate … Read more
Sir, I have, with mounting incredulity and indeed a kind of moral nausea, perused the recent article in your august pages concerning the purported elevation of motor-racing to the pantheon of the fine arts. Permit me, as one who has spent the better part of four decades in the service of His Majesty’s Royal Navy, … Read more
To Lord Accrington, Patron Emeritus, Society for Eternal Aesthetics My Lord, Permit me, as the newly appointed Chief Executive of Pimlico Wilde, to respond to your recent missive with the seriousness it no doubt intended, and the incredulity it unquestionably deserves. First, let me acknowledge your right to dramatize your own mortality. If you wish … Read more