Gone to the wall
Sir,—Writing on December 19, Mrs Sutton seeks to identify and locate “the wall” to which people are going. Walls have many uses. You can bang your head against them; have your back to them; be driven up them; or write seiniilliterately on them. They have ears when you are being indiscreet; you would like to be a fly on one when Someone else is being indiscreet A wall contributed to Humpty Dumpty’s downfall; Shakespeare icicles hung by one. But back to Mrs Sutton. To the English upper classes there is only one wall, viz the venue for the Eton Wall Game. If this is too emetically elitist for your readers, there is the alternative theory that during the Roman occupation of
Britain; a posting to Hadrian’s Wall was something to be avoided. Punitive expeditions beyond the wall were known as “Wall-operations,” subsequently abbreviated to “Wallops.”—Yours, etc., W. R. ALLARDYCE. ' December 22, 1985.
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