Copyright © 2001, BMJ Endpiece Nothing like experience | ||||
We live in an age of mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the cv, the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience—so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed. Experience is the only thing we share equally, and everyone senses this. | ||||
Footnotes Martin Amis, All from experience, London: Jonathan Cape, 2000 | ||||