LETTER: Retro-garb of culture vultures
We have a wide and varied choice of cultural, or sometimes it must be said, of pseudo-intellectual avtivities.
We are lucky to have sages amongst us who are ever ready to dispense wisdom and who are treated with the reverence due to high-priests, so they do pontificate.
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These sages come kitted-out in the retro-garb of their distant youth. Like Dorian Gray they believe that they are still the ‘beautiful people’. Malvolio and cross-gartering come to mind.
John Rigby
Meads Road
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