10 JUNE 1966, Page 12

The Heart of the Matter

SIR,—The contemporary journalist has an odd distaste for the word 'I' which sometimes is the cause of a grammatical error, sometimes of a more dubious confusion. Mr Wells's fear of 'I' makes nonsense even of his title ('The Flesh is Weak,' May 27). 'Emerging just before the Big Fight from the low tunnel under the stands . . . out into the vast open space of the arena, cold under a grey late evening sky . . . lit with white arc lamps, it was hard . . Under these difficult circumstances the flesh was not weak. and Mr John Rowan Wilson might well have included this strange scene in the preceding article, 'What Should 1 Tell My Daughter?' GRAHAM GREI NE

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