I Am Not Away but Back Home in Bed ; Notebook

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AMONG the arts pages today you will read the statement to the effect that "Brian Sewell is away". Do not believe it at least not in the sense of away skiing or away climbing Mount Ararat again. I am away only in the sense that I am at home and not in the offices of the Evening Standard reading proofs and complaining about the dry heat, dead air and windows that cannot be opened. I am, however, in bed.

I have joined six million others in this country who are tormented by back pain and the ludicrous indignities of the quasi- Quasimodo attitudes that it occasionally inflicts.

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I Am Not Away but Back Home in Bed ; Notebook

In a year it has galloped from momentary twinge to constant company, from occasional creaks and groans to the aud...

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