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Competition

Londoner’s Diary

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2886 you were invited to submit a Pepys’-eye view of modern life.

Pepys’s candid and minutely observed diary entries hum with a seemingly inexhaustible lust for life and your attempts to capture this spirit were impressive. His perpetual randiness, in particular, loomed large in the entry (as one of Pepys’s biographers Richard Ollard notes, ‘an irresistible air of bedroom farce clings to him’).

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