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Holly Walsh on BS Johnson

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I Love Johnson, but I Don't Like Nobody's That Lily, and I Love That About Him

Most people dislike brian because he has no time for fools and is not afraid to show it. He thought that a lot of in the publishing world in the 19 sixties were over privileged fools. But jonathan, he didn't like being criticised at all. And he picked fights, you know, he was getting into fist fights with publishers parties. Fist pelters ripped him off, and this kind of thing. I think it's al so interesting that he did go quite a traditional route. Was a clerk in a big company, wasn't he? Yes,. So he'd gone down the sort of route that was expected of him, and then he'd to go to university.

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