Lucy Vickery

Competition: New leaf

In Competition No. 2678 you were invited to submit the New Year’s resolutions of a fictional villain.

issue 01 January 2011

In Competition No. 2678 you were invited to submit the New Year’s resolutions of a fictional villain.

In Competition No. 2678 you were invited to submit the New Year’s resolutions of a fictional villain. It was a smallish and somewhat lacklustre entry, possibly owing to the earlier-than-usual deadline. But I warmed to D.A. Prince’s Lord Voldemort: ‘Get him; just get him. Then the series will be over’, and was amused by Chris O’Carroll’s Edward Hyde, ‘Be myself’, and Bill Greenwell’s Count Dracula: ‘Get a life’. Gerard Benson, meanwhile, kept it brief on behalf of Bill Sikes: ‘No more Mr Nice Guy!’
There is a distinctly Dickensian feel to the winners’ enclosure. Those printed below are rewarded with £30 each. W.J. Webster, in the guise of Mr Pecksniff, trots off with the bonus fiver.

I am resolved that in the coming twelvemonth I shall, steadfast in my righteousness, advance the cause of morality, raising high the effulgent torch of duty in one hand and of honour in the other so that their intermingled rays may be as a beacon of illumination for the darkened souls of the benighted.

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