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Septimus, What Is Carnal Embrace?

THAT is one of the great first lines. I can’t get away from Stoppard it seems: we celebrated Mum’s birthday by going to see Arcadia. (I should also have remembered that the version of The Cherry Orchard which Dad and I saw at the Old Vic last summer was actually by Stoppard too). Et in [...]

Illyria

I have been in Oxford for a couple of days and of course Dad was there too. I met him outside Oriel where, before I decided which college to apply to, he collared a couple of students and asked them what they thought of the place (fine if you’re sporty, not so much if you’re [...]