“The writer who confesses that he is ‘not good at attention to detail’ is like a pianist who admits to being tone deaf”

Edward Winter wrote: It is extraordinary how the unschooled manage to reduce complex issues to facile certainties. The writer who confesses that he is ‘not good at attention to detail’ (see page 17 of the November 1990 CHESS for that stark, though redundant, admission by the Weekend Wordspinner) is like a pianist who admits to …