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The qualifications to become the Spectator’s Low Life correspondent are pretty daunting.
The two incumbents so far - Jeffrey Bernard and Jeremy Clarke - had a prodigious appetite for drink. They died young - at 65 and 66 respectively.
But the thing that really set them apart was their pitch-perfect syntax and the ability to turn the disastrous pitfalls of their chaotic lives into comic gold.
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