IN HIS MOST GLORIOUS COMIC ACTING ON film, Peter O'Toole played a washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent.
Since 1954, an equally symbolic novel has come to stand for the small expectations and raddled nerves of null century Britain and especially its middle-class intellectuals .
Was that the last the world would see of the raddled bird? Far from it.