Children.

What better opportunity to indulge our human need to mark and solidify
life's events in words than this, our 21st issue?
As we reach full maturity as a magazine we look at the history of
lives, and find the biographer's questions are the ones we must ask of
ourselves. Have we done enough?  What will our lasting legacy be?
And how long before we find ourselves stuffed upside down in a bin
outside Books ETC?

In this month's splendid offering:

*       Ralph Harrington reports expertly on the creator of the clerihew
(plus great pictures)

*       A transcript of a rare 1970 interview with Science Fiction writer
Jeff Lint (via Steve Aylett)

*       The celebrity autobiography kit, unearthed by new ATR favourite Emma Russell

*       The intelligent, witty musings you've come to expect from regular
Sylvia Bellini

*       And Peter Fletcher has been... counting his sneezes. The result is
surprisingly entertaining. Honest.


But don't take my word for it. If you signed up to the mailing list but only read these
messages, you really are experiencing a very impoverished version of
the magazine. Now that's what  I call a waste of life.

Here's the code now, here it comes:

http://alltherage.org.uk/alltherage-2008-12.pdf

Enjoy the ADVENT of the December issue. And, like, Happy Christmas or whatever.

ATR xxx