LETTER:No defence for emperor's new clothes

Tuesday 28 March 1995 23:02 BST

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From Mr Owen Wells

Sir: I was so moved by Catherine Wilkinson's letter that I went and looked at my chest of drawers. I found some discarded underwear in the bottom drawer that was on the verge of becoming very abject. I thought of resuscitating and re-animating it, but concluded that it would be kinder to leave it in its misery. I shut the drawer so that it might make its comment on the condition of art, in privacy, in the dark.

Yours sincerely,

OWEN WELLS

Ilkley, West Yorkshire

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