Tim has told us he wants quietness & loving kindness. Being a guest in his house, I must comply. Pity. It's not really my style. Am I allowed just a couple of responses ? The books "Malcs" questions are indeed a source of great embarassment to me. It wasn't just good manners - always my strong point - that prevented me from flogging either them or my personal CV all over a list devoted to another writer. (Though I did reluctantly & privately supply details to one or two interested members.) It was the awareness of what absolute tripe they are. How many of *you* would like your juvenilia spread out before the mocking eyes of the world ? All those wonderful reviews, all that flattery by household names... they have done absolutely nothing to allay my deep shame at inflicting such piffle on an innocent public. In mitigation, I can only say that the next two, now in course of construction, will go some way to undo the offence. I can already see Jerome's eyes filming over with a greenish tinge when they reach the stores. In the meanwhile, "Malcs", I can only offer my posts to the list as evidence of that menacingly potent talent which so many others have detected beneath my friendly & benign surface. Scottie B. - who, like your own Dorothy Parker, has always found himself fwowing up when weeding Mistah Milne.