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Annesley, Horace

Horace Annesley used to work for the North Eastern Gas Board. His hobbies are writing and collecting autographs of important contemporary figures, of which he has a large number.

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Brief Encounters

Horace Annesley on Spencer Somers, Tea at Florian’s

An account of a life deeply devoted to celebrity-chasing, it is both comic and rather pathetic, because though he describes his victims with enthusiasm and a considerable talent for characterization, his encounters with them were almost always unsatisfactory. The Florian’s of the title is of course the celebrated café in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, where Somers lay in wait for his victims on the (perfectly accurate) theory that sooner or later anyone who was anyone would at some time sit down in the Sala Greca or the Sala Orientale or at one of the outside tables for afternoon tea.

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