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Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended 404 Not Found

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to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art."

So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know , quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent...

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