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James Delingpole says You Know It Makes Sense

issue 26 June 2010

James Delingpole says You Know It Makes Sense

The most excruciatingly awful thing I have ever done in my entire life happened in my penultimate year at school. At the time I was learning classical guitar and occasionally I would meet up with one of my English teachers, ‘Mattie’ Simpson, so that we could play duets together. On the fateful day I’m about to describe the piece we were practising was Bach’s ‘Air on a G String’.

Now my other main activity at the time was cross-country running. Like many of the boys in my house I would train regularly and hard, killing myself up and down the Malvern Hills before hurrying home for tea where I’d fill my knackered, sweating carcass with round after round of peanut butter on toast. Sometimes, the combination of violent exercise and wolfed-down toast seemed to exact a dire penalty on my guts.

And so it was on the dread duet day.

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