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Letter: Letters: Ticklish issue

Published 7 August 1993

From MALCOLM EVANS

The premise of the issue is wholly false. Any man with nasal hair knows it
to be false. A hair grows from the central cartilage of the nose and tickles
the opposite side of the nostril: it is an exquisite torture. Use a
‘personal hygienic trimmer’: it grows again.

Your Letters pages are not the place to debate whether a nasal hair is
‘you’ or ‘yourself’ or both but, I tell you, it tickles.

Malcolm Evans
Inzievar
Dunfermline, Fife

Issue no. 1885 published 7 August 1993

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