Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died at 80
Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died. He was 80.
The poet, essayist, author and entertainer had a gift for tickling the divergent sensibilities of the readers of highbrow literary magazines and the audiences of Saturday night TV in Britain, his adopted country. James, in his self-deprecating way, once imagined an acquaintance describing him as "the boy from the bush who could quote Wittgenstein," the philosopher.
"Eventually in my mid-30s I got a grip on myself," he added. "But there can be no doubt that I had a tiresomely protracted adolescence, wasting a lot of other people's time, patience and love."
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