Jaspistos

Ego Trip

Ego Trip

issue 09 April 2005

In competition No. 2386 you were invited to provide an extract from an imaginary autobiography of a boaster.

The dramatic critic James Agate unabashedly called his diaries, in nine volumes, Ego. Cellini was a bit of a braggart, but the autobiographer’s cake is surely taken by Frank Harris, just ahead of George Moore, though I incline to believe that more of the former’s related sexual conquests were true than the latter’s.

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