Happy Pole
Sir: I have already received two issues of The Spectator, dated 14 and 21 January (were you celebrating the New Year until 7 January?) and I am delighted. I got im- mediately in the habit of going through its pages repeatedly. Most of my leisurely moments in the otherwise hectic days are filled with the rambling amusement and pale passions that emanate from your magazine. I have a strange feeling that I am learning something, though I would be hard put to say what I had not known and you told me. But I certainly enjoy your mind-tickling vagaries. If irreverently, I say it with a feeling of gratitude.
I am also moved by the idea of having a collective friend in Britain. I understand that somebody has paid for my subscrip- tion without having known me, actually without indicating to whom your journal was to be sent. So within the framework of that venture my identity was entirely blur- red at the time. Now, after his (or her) pounds have been mingled with other people's money, my benefactor's identity Is blurred. How strange to strike an anony- mous friendship among diffuse and collec- tive entities and to be part of it for a year. But I am happy that I am part of it, and I feel I will have a good year.
Jacek Holowka
Andersena 2 m 22, 01-911 Warszawa, Poland
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