[John Whitworth]

Dammit. That's much better. Let's hope the Staggers has no taste or knowledge. Tell you what. You can win with Joyce and I will win with Vlad.

[Orwn Acra]

I might be able to use my recent Speccie offering. Anthony Burgess writes erotica?

[Janice D. Soderling]

Ann, I am totally fascinated by this magnificent sentence.

Oh, Darling, I thought everybody knew - she's Harry Preggers, and not a notion of who's the Daddy.

It reminds me of some novelist. Who, who, who? An Englishwoman. Who has that kind of dialogue. Might it be Muriel Spark?

Or it might be a man. Oh, what is his name? Henry Green. Party- Going, etc.

Had it been poetry, I'd say Stevie Smith. But she wrote prose too, didn't she.

Oh, who?

(Sorry, amusing fellows, just ignore this post.)

[John Whitworth]

But Orwn, Anthony Burgess DOES (did) write erotica.

[Brian Allgar]

You mean things like "A Cockwork Orange"? Or "Inside Mrs Enderby"?