Conrad's world
Sir: In his interesting article about Marie Lloyd (October 7) Benny Green found it necessary to refer to Conrad's world as so totally devoid of humour.' It so happens that two weeks ago I was at a party where a young man was moved to entertain the rest of us by reading aloud the dispute about the flying of the Siamese flag, described in Typhoon; and another coincidence is that on the very day that I read Benny Green's article, somebody else who was discovering Conrad for the first time was telling me about his enormous enjoyment of the irony in Nostrorno. I am puzzled that Benny Green should have failed to appreciate the wit of Conrad but Still more so by the fact that anyone who might claim to know anything about him at all should include Conrad in a reference to Marie Lloyd's 'more exalted contemporaries and their closed artistic worlds.'
F. Frost 45 Rudall Crescent, Hampstead, London NW3
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