tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post734310194753988881..comments2024-03-29T07:54:24.161+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: But let's be originalRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-3454250215515500642013-09-10T19:49:02.081+01:002013-09-10T19:49:02.081+01:00Bogus readers abound: the spy pretending to read w...Bogus readers abound: the spy pretending to read whilst observing his target, the busy-body ostensibly reading, but listening to others’ conversations, and my late father, hidden behind a newspaper at the dinner table with his three sons. Suddenly a hand lets go of one side of the newspaper, flashes out like a chameleon catching a fly, swats me on the side of the head and withdraws in a flash to retrieve the falling page of the paper, and all this accompanied with a staccato, “stop chewing your fork Con!”<br /><br />I reckon he knew it was an odds on chance I would be chewing my fork. I don’t do it now.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-87648077969522697052013-09-10T16:32:59.355+01:002013-09-10T16:32:59.355+01:00I confess that in my youth I used to read books so...I confess that in my youth I used to read books so that I could say that I had read them. Doubtless some benefit rubbed off, but there was no deep love of them. Now I read books because I love the language and the content. I don't care whether any one knows or not. But I do enjoy sharing the pleasure with others who have read the same books.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.com