From Arthur C. Clarke
Colombo, Sri Lanka
I seem to be the victim of a typographical conspiracy. You have rendered
my first sentence (Letters, 9 March, p 53) meaningless by leaving out the “½”
in “GMT + 5½ hours”.
And last week the local Sri Lankan papers omitted the initial “s” in
“slowest” when I repeated the old joke that “cricket is the slowest form of
animal life”. Only swift damage control saved me from joining Salman
Rushdie.
