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I can remember back in the 1970s when a girlfriend of mine, sensing my lack of interest in her very long and very detailed analysis of the lyrics of Bob Dylan suddenly said, ‘Am I boring you?’
Of course she was. And of course I denied it. Why? Because it was a hurtful and embarrassing thing to say to someone.
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Cosmo Landesman writes for the Sunday Times and was among the founders, along with Toby Young and Julie Burchill, of the Modern Review.
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