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Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:51:32 +0100 

    Actually, Tim, I think I *did* get you a tiny bit riled there.  
    But none the worse for that.  Rather the better in fact.  
    Vitality is, after all, the one really essential ingredient 
    of all good writing.  I think you may be starting to hit 
    your stride at last.  I hope you're appropriately grateful.

    Incidentally, 'American' & 'Australian' *are* simple epithets.  
    Surely you don't regard the terms as pejorative?

    And if we're to shun any discussion of religion I'm not sure 
    under which dispensation we've been allowed, up till now, 
    all this talk of the Jesus prayer.  

    In light of Jerome's experience in the Hurtgen Forest 
    I should also have thought the pacifist element in 
    his subsequent writing was, at the very least, debatable.  
    Is no one permitted to say in that context that they 
    at least sympathise with the position & suspect what 
    his attitude might be - like that of other right-thinking 
    chaps - towards gun control?

    Or did that old comforting feel of the stock against 
    the shoulder lead you into a certain shamefaced sympathy 
    with the aims of the NRA?

    Scottie B.