A student yesterday, "My father was Catholic, but then he married a
Christian and converted." I have noted this slip toward equating
"evangelical" with "Christian" a good many times recently (he says,
waving his hand vaguely toward a hewn pile of evidence), in this very
household even. If this is a trend, what will become of Methodists,
C of E's, Wee Frees and other homosexual-loving wooly heretics?
By the way...for a very entertaining read and a wonderful scene with
a portrait painter trying to capture the moral smallness of a Wee
Free elder, I recommend "44 Scotland Street," by that-man who-writes-
about-the-fat-lady-detective-in-Africa, McCall Smith.
Oh, and re. Sebald...who was the late Straker's late obsession (see
McCall Smith for joke ref)... I own "Austerlitz" and have tried to
read it on several occasions, but no conversion thus far.
Thanks to Judy for the link on Booker prize folk.
