Sir, Matthew Parris (My Week, Sept 3) claims that “Larkin was right: What will survive of us is love”. But Larkin is always a tricksy one, and what he says is that the Arundel tomb may “prove our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive”& c.
Sadly, a miss is as good as a mile, and those “almost”s torpedo the lovely, resonant sentiment.
Philip Allison
Edinburgh