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Continuity.
AS I WRITE these words, the date is Monday 1st October 2001; by the time you are reading the humble paragraphs which follow, Christmas will almost have us once more by the throat. For the writer of occasional trifles, the long lead time which governs the publication schedule of a monthly magazine adds a new horror to death: what on earth, a month from now, might still seem worth writing about? Osama bin Laden and similar vileness? The climax to the election campaign?
Even the predictive pundits on the daily media fumble and flounder between one sunrise and the next, so what a mug's game it seems even to attempt something that will sound sensible in a month. Well, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Continuity.