tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126042.post-1102761449284839602004-12-11T10:28:00.000Z2004-12-11T14:16:46.490Z<strong> <br />Just time today for a quick gloat about the consequences of our recent troublemaking at the British Library <em>(see posting of 1 October)</em>.</strong> <br /> <br />While the custodians of the national culture were clearly less than delighted when the E-EDITOR style police pointed out the glaring mistake on their display panel promoting the current Graham Greene exhibition, they did mutter that they would correct it and get the 9-foot panel remade. <br /> <br />A return visit this week proved that they have been as good as their word. Where the blurb for the Greene exhibition once talked about world-weary "ex-patriots", it now refers to equally world-weary "expatriates". <br /> <br />And, as if liberated by a new certainty and sense of purpose, the authorities have gone mad and erected two of these panels, where there was originally just the one. <br /> <br />If that means just a few more visitors are lured inside to learn more about Graham Greene and his writings, we'll feel our crabbing, pernickety intervention was more than justified. <br /> <br />After all, Greene has long been up there in the E-EDITOR pantheon (see the FAQ section of the main www.e-editor.co.uk site), alongside other literary heroes and influences ranging from Wodehouse, Stoppard and Douglas Adams to Michael Bywater, Smokey Robinson, Winston Churchill and Elvis Costello. <br />ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00882602151850785568noreply@blogger.com