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A Puck-like, Will-o’-the-wisp Withnail in everyone’s peripheral vision, he seemed to appear from nowhere, leaving a trail of larger-than-life pranks, triumphs and more frequent disasters, which fuelled drunken gossip to everyone’s amusement. Martin Amis, in The Information, cast him as Rory Plantagenet, “The compromised and epicene diarist on a London evening paper.

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