Sir, - Sir! . . . If I may interrupt! Perhaps you would be kind enough to print this note in the middle of the letter above. Alternatively, you could print it on every second line of one of the other letters; it is quite short. Overprinting, as my computer sometimes does, would be perfect. It's not as if I had anything to say.
RTE interviewers do it, interrupt I mean; it makes good radio and television, apparently, and, God knows, some politicians need to be interrupted. Who wants information anyway? But now it is the silly season again; the pre election gabble is on us once more and the politicians have the floor. Oh joy! From now until the election they will never have to complete a sentence or - heaven forbid - reach a single conclusion. They will be interrupted.
It works like this: I interrupt you. Point scored. Now you are bound to interrupt me, which is exactly what I want, as I am racking my brains as to how to finish this sentence.
Perhaps your more statistically orientated readers would like to devise a way to score our politicians and interviewers - an interrupters' league, perhaps. To this end I am prepared to offer as a prize, in both categories, a valuable . . . Sorry? Oh! Oh yes.
Quite, letters must be kept short.
- Yours, etc.,
Rostrevor Road,
Rathgar,
Dublin 6.