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Monday, September 04, 2006

Boys, boys.

First there was Lee "Sprezzatura" Siegel, about whom everyone's still talking. (Christopher Hitchens has gone to town on him.) And now Bevis "The Butthead" Hillier, the British writer who loves poet John Betjeman not wisely but too well, has admitted concocting the "A.N. Wilson is a shit" hoax in order to strike back against Wilson, a rival Betjeman biographer.

There is a pathos to this intense paper aggression. One wishes both men had taken up healthful outdoor exercise.