Cheer yourself up with the 1964 Monitor profile of Philip Larkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdDS05x6d0&feature=related
..you think po-biz paranoia is bad now, just watch the fury and elation
buried in Phils face when facing his biggest rival, John Betjeman. Notice
how Betjeman read more of Phil's poem than he did, and get behind the
sufrace dance between these two fruity bores.
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