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
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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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