One of the many good things about getting older is that, while in my own case I've yet to see any signs of getting wiser, one at least can give a passable impersonation of someone of more substance, intellectual and emotional, than is actually the case.
One of the many good things about getting older is that, while in my own case I've yet to see any signs of getting wiser, one at least can give a passable impersonation of someone of more substance, intellectual and emotional, than is actually the case.
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Rosemary Goring
Usually this is achieved by nothing more difficult than keeping one's mouth zipped at the right time, a harder task than it sounds.
Even so, as aficionados of TV, radio and pub quizzes know, there are times when nothing can disguise a lifetime's information shortfall or ill-trained memory. For me, the annual humiliation, when all pretence is in vain and nothing stands between me and exposure, comes at the Muriel Spark Society Anniversary Lunch, held on the first Sunday of this month, to mark her birthday on February 1.
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