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Even a Cambridge-educated spook couldn't make me believe in ghosts

Denis may have been a Cambridge-educated former Special Branch officer but he couldn’t convince me to believe in ghosts

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

Denis was my guide to and from the new out-of-town Lidl superstore at Salernes in Provence. I drove. The road was a smooth ribbon of asphalt newly laid through an ancient forest of dwarf oaks. The in-car conversation with Denis was, as usual, easy and undogmatic and wide-ranging, which is the only sort of conversation I am capable of, for I can never remember what my opinions are, let alone which set of beliefs gave rise to them.

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