Scottie Bowman wrote: > > 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 - c. 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 Snce you're going to assume, I'll just tell you that I generally don't get many negative comments about my work, not that I should even attempt to defend it (notice how he threw that one in there! "who often give him a pretty bad time" Sometimes it just seems too easy doesn't it Scottie?) . Other than that, I don't know what you could possibly be talking about, unless you simply felt left out from all the nonsense a few days ago. Brian