Tom Wolfe gone. For years I thought Bonfire of the Vanities to be an unsurpassable

[Sir C]

I'm sure you'll remember this next time you feel tempted to write something about jobbies.

Are you cautioning me not to be horrid to h, a? He knows I don't mean it.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I'm sure you'll remember this next time you feel tempted to write something about jobbies.

Oh I hope not!

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I remember no such line, h. If it fell out of me one day, that is pleasing, but I am reminded of Lord Nelson's reported comment when offered a cloak on a dark, cold night on deck, "I have love of my country to keep me warm." So if I said it, I basically nicked it.

I would class that as influence rather than plagiarism c. Well done you!

[Sir C]

I would class that as influence rather than plagiarism c. Well done you!

You're too generous, h. It looks suspiciously like theft, to me.

[Pokster]

Who isn't a failed novelist, h? I think we've all felt, at one time or another, as if we had a book within us, if only we could release it...

Or be like Monty and just release a book with lots of pictures in