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Article: It's Surrey on steroids Is it possible to combine a family holiday with a passion for golf? JASPER REES took his wife and children to the fairways of Sotogrande in southern Spain to find out
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright 1999 Evening Standard - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IN a novel by David Lodge, several professors of literature play a
game of Humiliation. The rules are simple: the participants take
turns to name a major work that they haven't read.
The more colleagues in the room who have read it, the more points
the unread text scores. One lecturer scores maximum points when he
claims never to have read Hamlet.
He wins, but gets the sack.
A more accessible version of the game would substitute major works
of literature with major holiday locations. Until recently I would
have been invincible: how many people can claim never to have been to
the Costa del Sol?
I could never quite believe that the coastline of southern Spain
had been even more ruthlessly ...