Lucy Vickery

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In Competition No. 2532 you were invited to take a recent news item and compress it into 25 words

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In Competition No. 2532 you were invited to take a recent news item and compress it into 25 words.

I am grateful to Eric Smith in the West Indies who suggested the idea and drew my attention to the shadowy figure of Félix Fénéon, art critic and anarchist, among other things.

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