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This Week's Episode of 'DSL. in the TLS' (Letters, August 7, 2026): 'Out of the Fire and Into the Ayer Fryer with Tyson's Frozen Nuggets (feat. Boxing Rings and A Can of Campbell's), or, By the Dons' Early, Burly, Girly Twilight'

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M y fourteenth letter in The Times Literary Supplement (August 7, 2026 , below ), six weeks ( three biweekly issues )  since the last (old record, 2020: eight then-weekly issues between letters) , now online ( third letter, mostly  paywalled), in my  Google Drive  and due in British mailboxes and newsstands Friday morning (images added) : Letters to the Editor ‘Twilight of the Dons’          Twilight of the Dons , J. M. Coetzee on genocide, Waiting for Godot in Blackpool, etc R ichard Vinen [ reviewing Twilight of the Dons: British intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd , July 24 ] describes the Oxford philosopher A. J. “Freddie” Ayer    as having felt aggrieved not to have been recognized by the boxer Mike Tyson. But as the famous story was reported in A. J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers, the cry of lèse-majesté and attendant pulling of rank originated with Tyson. Colin McGinn ( TLS , Ju...
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'Pix or it didn't happen'? Oh, it happened, all right ...

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A n email thread with "family and loved ones": Forwarded Conversation Subject: 'Pix or it didn't happen'? Oh, it happened, all right ... ------------------------ From: Uncle Scott Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 4:07 AM Now with links (and ironic parenthetical italics )! V ia Walmart and FedEx, and the TLS and USPS, it is our great pleasure here at Uncle Scott Productions of Superior ( the other USPS ) to present to you, from a retrieval in the vestibule this afternoon so heavy it demanded the Walmart cart in the ante( and   Uncle) room right of the lobby " just to get up that hill ", four packages: 1. Mainstays (Walmart housewares line, as with Great Value groceries, Equate personal care,  Hyper Tough hardware, Ozark Trail ou...
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