As an antidote to Philip Roth I'm reading Mihir Bose's biography of Keith Miller, an Australian cricketer. This extract is from his period in England during 1942: Soon after he arrived in Bournemouth, he was invited one weekend to play for the RAAF at Dulwich. That Sunday afternoon a hit-and-run raider bombed a bar that was a particular Miller haunt. Had he not been playing cricket he would certainly have been there. Seven of his friends were killed. Who knew Dulwich was a prophylactic?