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The Perils of Baldness

The most recent London Review of Books features Alan Bennett’s selection from his diaries for 2008. Nestled near the end, in an excerpt from his notebooks, is this gem of his mother’s:

“I wouldn’t want to be as bald as that. You’d never know where to stop washing your face.”


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