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    April 28, 2004

    Observer Review on googling ex-lovers

    An interesting piece in the Observer Review, as far as I can see only in the print edition and not on http://observer.guardian.co.uk/ by Katha Pollitt on how, when abandoned by her lover, she obsessively pursued references to him in Google. It struck me that she was in a good position to do this for her lover, a New York academic, must have left a rich spoor across the web. Had her lover been a dustman she might have found his life, both with her and afterwards, less well-represented electronically. He had taken up with another academic , and I admire Ms Polllit's restraint in not posting anonymous derogatory reviews of her rival's work on Amazon: indeed I wish she had, for the review she never published,: "writes like a baton twirler with a PhD," is simply marvellous.

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