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The Metropolitan Critic (1974), his first collection of literary criticism, was followed by At the Pillars of Hercules (1979), From the Land of Shadows (1982), Snakecharmers in Texas (1988), The Dreaming Swimmer (1992), Even As We Speak (2001), The Meaning of Recognition (2005) and Cultural Amnesia (2007), a collection of miniature intellectual biographies of over 100 significant figures in modern culture, history and politics. His way with such objects is among the attractions of a book which is, as it had to be, both attractive and abrasive. In December 2009, James talked about the P-51 Mustang and other American fighter aircraft of World War II in The Museum of Curiosity on BBC Radio 4.

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He's fearless in recounting stories that anyone else would have happily oppressed and forgotten about. I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author.

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Describing religions as "advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist", James was an atheist and saw it as the default and obvious position. Depois de fazer uma vistoria à casa toda - o topo das escadas exteriores do qual podia ver-se a fonte, a eira onde um lagarto ou outro se escapava por entre as entranhas da pedra, ou o velho aquecedor de pés da sala, mais estimulante do que o ecrã da televisão - tentava a cozinha. But if you let go with anything soft, it takes two teachers to clean you up and the whole affair attracts nation-wide publicity. The boy who kacked his pants went on to become an accomplished petomane – not an owner-up like Hume but a virtuoso.

He is at his most intriguing when he assesses his own demeanour, attitudes and behaviours from school age to university years.

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Its timbers were shivered by the love-making of passengers and crew, from which, as he passed into exile, Clive James was excluded. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me. When he proposed to run away in traditional style, the threat was dealt with by the preparation of peanut-butter sandwiches and pyjamas. James acknowledged the importance of the Midnight Voices group in bringing to wider attention the lyric-writing aspect of his career. Eager and ambitious from the first, deterred by none of his disasters, Clive has done at least as well as Cinderella.Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer.