Poetic form
SIR – At 11 words, Harold Pinter’s shortest poem was certainly enigmatic: “I saw Len Hutton in his prime/Another time/another time” (“The known and the unknown”, August 20th). So was Simon Gray’s response when, a few days after sending him the poem, Pinter phoned Gray to check if he had received it. He replied he had, but “I haven’t finished reading it yet”.
Kaushik Basu
Chief economic adviser
Ministry of Finance
Delhi
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