Right versus Left - Dennis Hamley
Last month I went to a college reunion. It was great. To meet again people I remembered as callow youths now grizzled, grey-bearded and sometimes, like me, bald, yet still be able to recognise them, was not only very pleasing but also a great relief. 'Quiet, ever-honoured Jesus College' - ST Coleridge In the bar after dinner I spent much time talking to someone who, like me, read English. We drifted round to the almost inevitable subject, the rise of ebooks. He was so dead against them. They devalued literature, they usurped the real book, they encouraged mediocrity, yadda, yadda, yadda. 'I bet you won't find the most important book written so far this century on your Kindle,' he confidently said. 'I bet I will,' I replied. 'What is it?' 'The Master and his Emissary,' he replied. 'By Iain McGilchrist. Kindle wouldn't publish a book like that.' 'Oh yes they would,' I said, forbearing to say that Kindle d...