Telling Tales
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by Patience Agbabi
Sir Topaz & Da Elephant: ST: I be born an’ bred in East … DE: He was born in Islington and went to Cambridge … ST: Lies, lies … DE: The truth. We met at Cambridge, Baron Cohen gave a lecture … ST: We hooked up at Limehouse, bro. DE:… and created this double act … ST: ’Cept it’s no act. DE: … because he hasn’t got a girlfriend …
Roger of Ware: is the literary descendent of John Skelton, an in-yer-face spitter with an unsavoury crew, ‘Too many Cooks’, proving a man is only as good as the company he keeps; his infamous ‘Roving Mic’ events regularly divide intellectual audiences unsure whether it’s acceptable postmodern irony or he really is a ****.