The Misanthrope’s Corner

GOOD timing has never been my long suit but the invention of Viagra suggests that my luck has changed. Now that I have, shall we say, retired from the ring, I can appraise the issue with a degree of objectivity that would have been impossible to summon when I was in fighting trim.

When the news of the miracle drug broke my first thought was that a classic scenario had come to an end. Never again would a woman have to struggle to keep a sympathetic—or straight—face while a hollow voice said: