18 SEPTEMBER 1993, Page 28

Please enlighten

Sir: In Hilary Corke's review (Books, 28 August) `. . all creative endeavour is a sort of cock-snooking at the dark'. How does one snook a cock, how would it respond, and what would a snooked cock do to the dark?

Charles Fyffe

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