Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Diet Talk from Kingsley Amis

He said: “The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.”



Amis's three books on drinking have been reissued in a single volume. I'll drink to that.

2 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

spot on, kingsley, spot on

but, er- why are you reading diet advice from martin's da'?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

I know. Doesn't really make sense, does it? Old Kingsley wasn't exactly svelte.