message from the Mother Country

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:54:34 +0100 

    Although Camille & Paul have identified themselves as 
    'fellow colonials', I should point out that the term can 
    be applied very properly to our splendid American friends 
    as well.

    Although it's sometimes unfairly termed 'crudeness', 
    I prefer to see the essential quality of Colonial Writing 
    as a kind of innocent freshness which we in the old world 
    have now almost completely lost.  

    As well as that, of course, it radiates an honesty & vigour 
    which - though mistakenly identified sometimes as paranoid 
    - truly reflects that healthy, assertive life lived nowadays only 
    in God's open air on the wide plains & lofty mountains of 
    the Dominions.

    Keep up the good works, chaps.

    Scottie B.