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Present Tense

You speak to me in tones of urgent angst: `Oh! Where's the sellotape? Who had it last?' I place it gently in your sticky grasp. You sigh a grateful sigh and mutter, 'Thanks. I'm......

The Sun Went Down With His Wrath

Paul Foot JOHN STEINBECK: A BIOGRAPHY by Jay Parini Heinemann, f20, pp. 604 J ohn Steinbeck's great novel about the migrant workers of the American depres- sion, The Grapes of......