Lord Archibald Soria

He writes dense columns, peppered with unnecessary Latin phrases, fierce criticism of editorial indiscipline, and frequent references to Oxford, although it has never been confirmed whether he was admitted or simply dropped in for tea in the library once. Rumor has it that he was born on a Caribbean island, where he was educated at a boarding school with sea views and traditional punishments. He wears a Panama hat indoors, quotes Virgil in a low voice when correcting other people's spelling, and considers the Latin American boom to be “a funny anomaly with epic pretensions.” He speaks with such an ambiguous accent that no one dares to ask him where he comes from. He was once expelled from a book fair for calling all the finalists for the Planeta Prize “bureaucratic prose writers.”

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