Chris O'Carroll kept up the honour of the Sphere with a couple of winning proverbs. I particularly liked 'An Apple a day keeps Microsoft away'. The new Competition doesn't look too promising at first glance but I think a ten line poem might be managed, perhaps in couplets. Anyway, here it is. I think Lucy means six words per person. So a poem of sixty words. Why not? By the way, anybody know what Hemingway's mini-fable was?
No. 2585: In brief
Ernest Hemingway once said that his best work was a story he wrote in just six words. You are invited to submit the memoirs of ten famous figures from history or well-known fictional characters, using only six words. Entries to ‘Competition 2585’ by 26 February or email
lucy@spectator.co.uk.
Speccie: Proverbs and In Brief
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