Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothache

From the LRB letters page: [ 7 May 1998 ] John Bayley, Charles Mayo.

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.

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Coruscating on Thin Ice · The Divine Spark

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