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Doors

At last we found a house that had a room And squeezed the car beside a cow-shed stall. The sun a green half-bitten apple sank Precisely then between black writhen whips, Sooty......

Books

I care for nobody, no, not I . • • Hilary Mantel A PROFILE OF JONATHAN MILLER by Michael Romain CUP, £32.50, f10.95, pp.229 I t may be that Renaissance men have never been......