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Sir: My attention has been drawn belatedly to your TV critic's review of the Man Alive report (BBC2, 3 February) on public disgrace arising from police harassment of homosexuals. Evidently Jeffrey Bernard finds it difficult to both look and listen accurately at one and the same time.
Thus, referring to me as a Professor of something or other (art history as a matter of fact and hence very relevantly to what I actually said), he unkindly asserted that I had given myself 'an affectionate pat on the back'. To do this he used the old trick of apparently quoting actually and verbatim by printing an erroneous phrase, out of context, and within inverted commas. The psychiatrist I was sentenced to see as a condition of probation never refused to talk to me because of the richness of my imagery. What he did say was that because my imagery was so rich with art references he could not analyse it helpfully which, I think you would agree, is something quite different and not at all self-congratulatory.
I shall be obliged if you could correct Mr Bernard's erroneous record.
Trevor Thomas 36 Pembroke Street, Bedford
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