lit.crit.
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Fri, 09 Jan 1998 17:50:42 +0000
Brian tells us he is `about to graduate as a fiction writer'.
This process, he tells us, involves exposing his work to
the scrutiny of his peers who often give him a pretty bad
time. But everyone then repairs to the local hostelry where
`these conversations...end in drinks and laughs....[& later]
even handshakes and jokes in the hall-ways....'
The road to literary success can be a rough one, passing
as it does sometimes through the Field Intelligence Unit or
the Ospedale Maggiore, but the jocularity in those hallways
certainly makes my blood run cold.
Scottie Bowman
person, face to face. For several semesters I have spent time
inseminars where I dis-tribute my own work to everyone in the class
and amforced to sit through an hour or two of each class mate picking
at it(I'm sure many of you have experienced this as well). In
thatsituation, we all can be quite gentil and very often
fero-cious.Fortunately,. I guess, on