26 NOVEMBER 1954, Page 6

Oh, For a Muse of Fire !

Those who have suffered from them will, I believe, agree, that the pangs of authorship are described- with accuracy 80 feeling in the following morceau, the end-product of a week; end's cerebation by a small boy of seven whose teacher had given him the task of writing a story: First you think 0' what you are going to say. This is not very easy and it talc°5 up a lot of time. And after that there is not a lot of time left to write a long story. That is why I never manage to write very much. I have been thinking all the week-end.'