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The Simple Things (Digital)

The Simple Things (Digital)

1 Issue, August 2024

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Packed with facts

White goods US writer and journalist Joan Didion - admired both for the style of her work and the style of her appearance - apparently had a packing list stuck to her wardrobe door so she’d be ready to go when assignments required it. Reproduced in her book The White Album, it’s suitably minimal, though does include her comforts of slippers, cigarettes and bourbon. It contrasts sharply with Evelyn Waugh’s character of William Boot in Scoop, who arrives at the airport, destined for war reporting aboard, weighed down with luggage including canoe, humidor and ant-proof clothes box. Boot’s character was apparently inspired by a young Bill Deedes - who went on to be Editor of The Telegraph - who described his purchases in readiness for a similar trip as weighing “just…
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