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Long Life

Oxford made me insufferable Nigel Nicolson O ne afternoon in 1937 I was sitting in my room at Balliol reading Zuleika Dobson, when a note was brought to me from the porter's......

Low Life

Night visits Jeffrey Bernard 0 ne night last week my doorbell rang at 3 a.m. My heart gave a lurch as I instinc- tively thought first that it must be the police and second that......

Half Life

Gaining face Carole Morin M asochists get on my nerves, but every month no matter how poor I'm feel- ing I pay a woman in a white coat to stab me in the face. The first time I......