The TLS April 07, 2000, Letters to the Editor Shut your air-holes Sir, - "Shut your air-holes! And the bunsens // roared blue in the dark afternoon." (Henry Shukman, "Scientists", TLS/Blackwells Poetry competition runner-up, March 3.) Er, shouldn't that be "open"? CHRIS MCMANUS Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1.