'...Those are the rantings of an uneducated, though successful, fiction writer...' heh, (as Jim diffidently writes - but which for me always conjures up the image of a poor chap in the grip of terminal bronchiectasis)I don't think so. 'John le Carre: ....educated Sherborne School, Berne University &, after military service, Oxford. He taught French & German for two years at Eton School before going into the British Foreign Service as second secretary in Bonn & consul in Hamburg.....' Biased, narrow-minded, snobbish, politically incorrect - possibly. But 'uneducated' - no. Scottie B.