Madam, - I am haunted by a conversation I had last weekend with a woman I met at a party, who had been living in Galway. There, in a bar, she had recently spotted a man wearing a new pair of Wrangler jeans. Such a breach of current fashion trends made the entire city "psychologically uninhabitable".
Unfortunately, she was not joking - she has moved back to Dublin. Oh Gawd. . . - Yours, etc,
JONATHAN HESSION, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.