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Article: Why do modern writers scorn the art of invective?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1994
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I was going through my correspondence the other day when I came
across a letter from Matthew Parris, which was nice, as although we
have only met a couple of times, he seems a most agreeable and
amiable type. Not many people have made the move from one of the
two most unpopular professions in Britain (politics) to the other
(journalism) without leaving a stain on his image . . .
I read his letter. In it he said that he was putting together an
anthology of prose in which people said scornful things about each
other, and as he was too busy to read the whole of world
literature, he was relying partly on the help of friends to come up
with ideas, so if I had any candidates . . .
Two days later, ...