a little note from Lector

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 07:40:58 +0100 

    Well, really.  I'm bewildered.  Here I am, a plain minded, 
    elderly man making an old fashioned plea for decorum - 
    only to find myself accused of pretentious writing, 
    insulted as 'Lord Scot', diagnosed as psychotic, likened 
    on the one hand to a figure from science fiction & on 
    the other to a cannibal, told (in my seventy-first year) 
    to 'get a life', & so on.

    And all of this on a mailing list devoted to a man whose 
    exquisite delicacy of feeling & empathy with the unfashionable 
    is legendary.  

    Ah, JD, where are you now that I need you?

    Scottie B.