Sir, - Like a Prof Higgins encountering some of Dublin's tattooed classes on the upper deck of the Dublin bus 65 to Blessington, Kevin Myers offers us a masterful polyglot essay. He limns with grace and gentility the drama of that moment and the awful paucity and dreary repetitiveness of his characters' scatology.
That he can accomplish this by the deft use of choice euphemisms and civil synonyms, and still respect the code of a family newspaper, is further tribute to his skill.
Chaucer, were he in Dublin, would have enjoyed hopping aboard to enjoy the moment on the tortuous road to Tallaght.
Yours, etc.,
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E. Leo McMannus, Venice, Florida, USA.