12 OCTOBER 1991, page 32

Ravings Of A Drug-crazed Wykehamist

Andro Linklater SONGS OF THE DOOMED by Hunter S. Thompson Picador, £15.99, pp. 315 T he real identity of Dr Hunter S. Thompson, author of such horror gothic works as Fear and......

Ageing

Ageing is an agony. Just white hairs, I'd thought; But now that teeth are falling out And hearing is a sort Of fought-off deafness, it seems nothing That my hair is white. And......

Senility

To say that it's sad to be old, That is indeed to betray Dodderiness, the dotard's whining Loss of the human way. For all men know their nature. We are not earth or sky, Nor......