Gavin Wraith's web pages

I particularly like Gavin's web pages. I find them particularly evocative, with their concentrated careful use of language, a style I cannot emulate. I think Gavin has the makings of a novelist. He might abstract from his family history and write a novel placed in Byzantium, between the east and the west. Probably he would prefer to write fantasy but this would interest me less.

Looking back at my posts I notice that many have a decidedly negative tone. Gavin has separated equivalent writing under the category "rants". I will introduce today two new categories of posts, optimistic and pessimistic. Choose which mood you would like to see.