How clever I thought I was saving a few quid by having your book sent by surface mail, Big Tim. What an eejit I was! I just got it the other day and to think I was without it all those weeks. Well, I have it now and am working my way through it with great pleasure!

One thing that strikes me is that you have managed the trick of writing so ... so effortlessly (and, oh! I know how much work it takes to write "effortlessly") and so transparently that you, the author, have disappeared and only these crystalline ideas remain to unfold naturally across the pages. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor--or have you seen crystals unfolding before?)

It's a pleasure reading the work of a master craftsman! Thanks for all your hard work--and your dispassionate approach to such a touchy subject.

David