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Recent reading has included books by Mark Twain, Steven Daly & William Donaldson. Donaldson is best known for the Henry Root Letters but, as i've discovered, there's a lot more besides.

Here's some definitions from his final book 'The Dictionary of National Celebrity'[written with Hermione Eyre and published after his death in 2005].

Enjoying a pint with the lads after the game.

Hospitalizing a law student.
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Game, the Beautiful.

Twenty-two silly haircuts and three rape allegations.

see also ADOLESCENCE; ROASTING; ROLE MODEL, A GOOD
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Fry, Stephen [b. 1960].

The stupid person's idea of a clever person.
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Sassy.

Scrawny, no neck American actress reduced to vibrator sex.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/04/features.magazine
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This biography is a good place to start with the reading and such, the William Donaldson story would make a great film.

You cannot live as I have lived and not end up like this : the thoroughly disgraceful life & times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker

Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been one of the great, under-rated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. His achievements were significant - he published "Sylvia Plath" while still at Cambridge, as a producer in the Sixties he staged "Beyond the Fringe", and he was later to write the celebrated "Henry Root Letters" - but not as impressive as his reckless talent for self-destruction.The impresario became a serial bankrupt. The man about town, who had lived with Sarah Miles and been engaged to Carly Simon, ended up as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. Success as a writer quickly led him into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual obsession. Now friend and collaborator, Terence Blacker unravels the intimate truth of Willie Donaldson's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain. 'What a young fool I was. But how I adored him' - Carly Simon. 'A slimy crook' - "Private Eye".