I notice no-one has actually said anything about the article in question.
The same edition of the Guardian, only this time in its weekend
supplement so not on the web, carried articles by Margaret Drabble, on
exciting places to swim in the countryside, Isabel Fonesca (Martin
Amis's wife) in a piece entitled 'A Family Business' on literary
couples, a comic, installment one, scripted by Philip Pullman, and
Simon Armitage on the smartest kit to get to transfer vinyl to
digital. Man, these guys are so vital.
There's another article, this time an interview with Michael Hoffman:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/metric-conversion-why-poet-michael-hofmann-stopped-wreaking-destruction-on-his-family-in-verse-832527.html
on why he no longer writes poetry. It includes the following possibly
unintended pun:
"As a poet, you're always going to have to do something else, unless
you have a really large-bore production like Ted Hughes or Les
Murray."
Michael Hoffman of course has nothing to do with the class system. It
is natural that public school pupils figure so much in the culture
industry and, I repeat, has nothing to do with class.
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