lit crit

Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 21:50:22 +0000

	Brian tells us he is `about to graduate as a fiction writer'. 
	This process, apparently, 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 sound of the joviality in those 
	hallways certainly chills my blood.

	Scottie Bowman