"Bob Brody, you may not yet have achieved great heights as a novelist, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (Stay true to yourself and fly closer to the sun': what I've learned from 50 years of rejection, 8 October). The illustration published with your article shows you at work on your typewriter, which appears to take in shredded paper and convert it to a sheet of A4 as you type. Genius."
"Further to the correspondence about leftovers (Letters, 7 October), some years ago I was watching a dessert cookery programme with my mother-in-law. When the host suggested using stale sponge cake as a base, she exclaimed: Stale? I didn't even know it went cold! This is now family folklore. Margaret Clarke Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia Re your article (Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to GP, 5 October), as the adage goes, motion is lotion, rest is rust."
Readers praise Bob Brody's inventive depiction of a typewriter that appears to intake shredded paper and output A4 as it types. One reader enjoyed Brody's account of learning to live with rejection but expressed doubt their own letter will be published. A reader recalls a family anecdote in which a mother-in-law, hearing stale sponge cake suggested as a dessert base, exclaimed: 'Stale? I didn't even know it went cold!' Another reader cites research showing two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and GP visits, summarising: 'motion is lotion, rest is rust.' A reader questions whether the misspelling 'Britian' on conference chocolate reflected a failure of IA. Readers are invited to email letters for publication consideration.
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