[R. Nemo Hill]

But there is an obligation to find fault, in a way, which is why throughout history there has been, quite naturally, a sort of pitched battle between critics and artists. The workshop environment is no different. One picks nits for the sake of picking sometimes because without that picking the prime reason for the existence of the 'forum' might be called into question. And I am not saying that either side doesn't have a perfectly cogent argument; only that viewing it from one particular side is not an "insult" to the other, and that the concept of a reverse world, a mirror image, is a very interesting and not necessarily confrontational perspective. It is naive to whitewash the role of sage reviewer while too quickly characterizing the world of the poet as often "bloody", "little", and "foolish". Surely those modifiers could be applied all round.

Nemo