The New Statesman
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A few people have asked me how I was doing after I hinted that I might be approaching a health crisis.
As far as the cancer fears go for that was what I, and the symptoms, were hinting at it seems that I don’t have anything to worry about, on that score, in that part of the body, at least for the moment.
But you can understand why I did worry when doctors ask me “when did you start smoking?” and I say “ 16 ”, even that’s not the truth: I started when I was 11 .
Just ask Dostoevsky , who collapsed after being pulled away from the firing squad at the last minute .
Tolstoy wrote a screed called “Why Do Men Befuddle Themselves?” It’s a very good question. I am now going to the shops to buy loads of wine and find out.
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