In fact, I also discovered that it only costs an extra tenner to have it delivered to France, so I may take out a subscription just as an insurance policy. The trouble is, as I said earlier, that I never read magazines - or newspapers, for that matter. I rely for my knowledge of the state of the world on vague emanations through the aether.
It has also occurred to me that instead of trying harder in order to win, there may be another solution: send my entries under the pseudonym "Martin Parker".
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