Tim: > I'm sure John Updike and Lorrie Moore and Madison Smartt Bell would, > perhaps, find that idea, while clever, a little too glib for its own > good.... They all manage to write fiction and ABOUT fiction quite well. > > --tim (who has negative days but refuses to be considered an "articulate > failure"!) Still, the le Carre quotation is all the more reason to encourage digressions. --Matt (who has negative capability and likes to be considered an "autistic farceur") -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu