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Newspaper Article
No 75 Simon Raven
2011
Overview
A gambler, flneur, cricketer, controversialist, imbiber and fine host, he revelled in pushing his restaurant bills to astonishing levels. Of gambling, he cheerfully described \"the almost sexual satisfaction which comes from an evening of steady and disastrous losses\". Passionate yet aloof, dissipated yet energetic, [Simon Raven] represents the perfect paradox of a certain type of Englishness. After obeying his publisher's restraining order for 34 years, he returned to London and died in an almshouse for the impoverished, regretting nothing. He wrote his own epitaph: \"He shared his bottle, and when still young and appetising, his bed.\" Beware the man who boasts he was a friend.
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Independent Digital News & Media
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