Talk on Buses

LRB · Andrew O’Hagan · Short Cuts

LRB · Andrew O’Hagan · Short Cuts

Harold Pinter once remarked that a writer who stops taking buses is likely to lose touch with the people’s speech. I can’t say whether this was true or not in Pinter’s case, though I was with him once in the Café Anglais when he took exception to the waiter’s way of speaking.

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