Palimpsest

Given that the epistolary form is, necessarily, a performative genre (with its explicit audience, and, often, its participation in a distinctly public discourse); and given that it is well known that, when we tell stories, the need for grand narrative effect often jostles with - and shouts down - the need for objective, verifiable truth ... I feel no compunction at all in having written to Amateur Photographer magazine with a lovely picture of me and my tiny Olympus XA2...