[Steve Bucknell]

Thanks, Janice, I get the same feeling. R.P. describes it as "the Holy Ghost".

Thanks David. It reminds me of a Paul Auster tale.

Cally, I'm not sure what that vocation is...A stalker of elderly writers?
As for greatness, a character of his writes: "I do not think her love for Pellinew ever died away at all, so there it all is, still lit up with the same light, though it is long ago." From TQB.

Thanks Steve, his book on Turkey must be high on your list.

Ed, I'm taking your ideas on board. I'm a hopeless organiser, but my wife Adrienne is good at making things happen.

R.P. makes me laugh...He quotes Johnson:" Sir, there are only two things that a man can and should absorb in unlimited quantities. One is air, the other is praise."