Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991
The Art of the Matter
By Noel Annan
Learning to Look
by John Pope-Hennessy
Doubleday, 336 pp., $27.50
Toward the end of the Second World War a young British officer was posted to Washington where he rented a room in the house of a maiden lady. The lady was an astrologer and she obligingly cast not only his horoscope but that of his brother. 'Don't blame me,' he wrote his brother, 'if you are frightened by its uncanny accuracy.' The horoscope read as follows:
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