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Injury Time

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by D J Enright


  Skelton, Barbara: Weep No More, 40

  Skelton-Wallace, Rowena, 162

  Smallwood, Norah, 76, 77–8

  Smith, Sydney, 6, 7

  smoking, 11, 21, 136–7, 149

  Smollett, Tobias George: Humphry Clinker, 165–6

  social services, 49–50, 164

  Somerset, Guy, 4

  Sorescu, Marin, 85–6

  soul, the, 98, 99–100

  South Gloucestershire Council, 49–50

  spelling, mistakes in, 9, 23, 33, 159; see also identities, words

  spin-doctors and doctoring, 74, 95, 159

  Steiner, George, 38, 46, 53

  Stevens, Wallace, 3

  Straw, Jack, 74

  suicide, 20–21, 26, 115, 139–41, 145

  Sunday Times, the, 10, 35, 150

  Sutherland, John, 87

  Svevo, Italo, 16

  Swift, Jonathan, 5; A Modest Proposal, 16, 124

  Swinnerton, Frank, 11

  Szasz, Thomas, 136

  Szymborska, Wislawa, 136

  Taylor, D. J.: Trespass, 10

  teenage pregnancies, 113–14

  television, 21, 84, 113, 151;

  commercials, 72

  Terence, 131

  Teresa of Calcutta, Mother, 133

  Thackeray, William

  Makepeace, 128

  Thailand, 67–8

  Thames Water, 36

  Thomas, Dylan, 131

  Times Literary Supplement, the, 3, 41, 53, 66, 71, 162, 163

  Times, The, 38, 39, 53, 57, 60, 106, 110, 129, 134, 145, 146, 150; Diary, 9

  Timms, Edward, 79

  Tolstoy, Leo, 128

  Tomalin, Claire: Jane Austen: A

  Life, 22

  translation, 62–3, 82, 83, 117–18; perils of, 34–5

  Trask, R. L.: Mind the Gaffe, 159

  Trimble, David, 60

  Tucholsky, Kurt, 9

  Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 42

  Twain, Mark, 168

  Valéry, Paul, 28

  Vansittart, Peter, 56–7

  Vaughan, Henry: ‘The Retreat’, 100

  Vidal, Gore, 143

  Video Appeals Committee, 79

  Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, comte de: Axel, 160

  virtual reality and real life, 87, 90

  Walker, Murray, 39

  Walser, Martin, 63

  Watson, Sheila, 81–2

  West Briton, the, 60

  Wharton, Edith, 61

  Whittle, Sir Frank, 151

  Wilson, Angus, 66

  Winner, Michael, 14

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef

  Johann, 37–8

  Wolfe, Thomas Clayton: Look Homeward, Angel, 106

  Woman magazine, 42

  Woolf, Leonard, 78

  Woolf, Virginia, 108

  words, 17–18, 46–7, 74–5, 103, 145, 146, 147, 148–9, 151, 154, 159, 163, 163–4; anagrams, 53, 91; malapropisms, 35, 39, 57–9, 59 – 61; misapprehended, 35, 57, 81; misconstrued, 34–5, 35; misheard, 52, 53, 56, 57; mispronounced, 104, 105; misread, 56; misspellings and misprints, 53, 59, 104–5, 105, 106, 153, 159; misused, 59; puns, 3–4, 18–19; 75, 91; see also language; spelling

  Wordsworth, William, 87; ‘The World is too much with us’, 119

  Wright, Kit, 28

  writers and writing, 9, 10, 11–12, 14, 16, 20, 48–9, 53, 62, 66, 71, 73, 86, 123, 154, 155, 157–9, 165, 167; see also poetry

  X, Dr, 168

  Yeats, W. B., 131, 142

  Young, Sir George, 147–8

  Zeitgeist, 100, 104, 124, 133, 149, 157

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