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Jul. 3rd, 2024

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 I dreamed about a young man who thought he'd written a great book only to discover he'd plagiarised it from a course of lectures he'd attended the year before and then forgotten about. He was inconsolable. "How old are you?" I asked. "Twenty," he said. "And how many people have written great books at twenty." I replied. "You have a long life ahead of you- we hope- and in the meantime how about trying your hand at something less ambitious, like a ghost story?"

At some stage in the course of all the dreaming I did- and there was a lot that I don't remember, I started writing clerihews. One has survived. It's rare that one composes things in dreams that can stand the light of day but I don't think this lacks cogency. It goes...

H.G. Wells
Invented Heavens and Hells
At the rate of two or three a day.
He did it for pay.
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 1. Wimbledon

I watched Djokovic's first round match. I don't suppose there are going to be all that many more opportunities to see him in action

Federer is artistic, Nadal impassioned and Djokovic effortless. Effortless is less exciting to watch than artistic and impassioned but the statistics are incontrovertible. Will anyone, ever again, win 24 majors- and counting?

Actually I wouldn't bet against it. Carlos Alcaraz has already got three under his belt and he's only 21....

 2. British General Election

It seems a foregone conclusion that Labour will win on a landslide. I'm not thrilled by what I know of Keir Starmer- and I'm not sure anybody is- but he's going to benefit from the deep, deep discontent with the political establishment that is sweeping the western world- with people less concerned with bringing in the new than in sweeping out the old. Here is Eastbourne we could see a Lib Dem victory. If George Galloway's Workers Party were running a candidate I'd vote for them....

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