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The man who mistook his groin for a brain.
An author by profession had need narrowly to watch his pen, lest a line escape it which by possibility may do mischief, when he has been long dead and buried.
--William Cowper, 1789
WHY DID ONE of the funniest writers of the twentieth century turn into one of the most crashing monomaniacal bores of any century? This is the fundamental question of Kenneth Tynan's life, to which question the ancillary enigmas include: (a) Was the boringness implicit in the brilliance, as a dead swan is proverbially implicit in a singing swan; and (b) How did flashes of the brilliance continue to occur even when the boringness was at its most mephitic?
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