In Competition No. 2789 you were invited to supply the facts of life as explained by a well-known figure from history or the character from a well-known novel.
Most of you chose characters from novels. Godfrey Ackers presented a gloriously pithy Mr Micawber: ‘Nightly coition five, rigidity positive — result happiness; Nightly coition nil, flaccidity perpetual — result misery.’ While at the other end of the spectrum John Whitworth finds Humbert Humbert on expansive form: ‘The facts of life, my chickabiddies! The birds, my own sweet birds of youth a-flutter, and the bees, my hot honey-bunches, bristling, whistling, rustling, hustling all abuzz!’
Commendations also to Steve Baldock and Peter Goulding. The winners get £25; Brian Allgar takes £30.
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