19 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 37

Gibberish Corner

Sir: Your printers made a nonsense of the first paragraph of my last week's letter about the meanderings of your television critic. What I actually wrote was: Your television......

Soviet Control

Sir: Christopher Booker (Books, 18 July) says it is hard to grasp what living in a totalitarian society is like. He is right, but does he? He writes that a 'totalitarian system'......

Sir: May I Draw Your Readers' Attention To The Strange

case of the Disappearing Duck? The mystery occurred on 29 August in line 6 of my poem tucked away at the bottom of page 28, and I'm still pondering its philosophical......

Letters Periodic Rises

Sir: I have only recently seen the essay 'All the world's a book' by Paul Johnson (27 June) and wish to draw your attention to some unfortunate consequences of the current trend......

Sir: The Concluding Sentence Of My Letter (12 September),...

party orga- nisation in Ulster, was incorrectly printed. It referred to the recent Coopers & Lyb- rand opinion poll, and should have read: 'But, more specifically, it found that......

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