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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling: the play’s OK – but better still, the theatre is warm

Saturday magazine

When I find my phone where I’d left it, on the bedside table, I see that I have a text from my wife. It reads: “Let me know when you have this message.”

This strikes me as something to ponder. If she meant “when you have seen this message”, then my answer is already overdue. If she meant “when you have understood this message”, then, well, who can say?

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