I was losing a lot of arguments here. Lester favored the bulldozer approach to his writers though so he ran over me fairly often. I did win one though - I think. Lester had told me that 'Fantasy fiction is the prissiest of all art-forms. ' I knew that he was wrong on that one. I've read the works from which contemporary fantasy has descended and 'prissy' is a wildly inappropriate description (derived. no doubt from Tennyson and Tolkien). I set out to delicately suggest that girls did in fact exist... read more
