My copy of Black Spring Press's edition of the Gorse Trilogy arrived on Saturday, I raced to LibraryThing to add it, but found someone else had got there first. No matter, it is wonderful to have it, still smelling of pumice (™G. Valerius Catullus).
I ought to say something about Russell May, who introduced me to Hamilton about thirty-five years ago. He turned me on to Hamilton's anti-fascism, his ear for pub dialogue, and his insight into evil and exploitation. I met Russell in the Cross Keys, a Cambridge pub a few yard away from my childhood home: the first time I saw him he was deep in conversation with Roger Law who, as part of Fluck and Law, was later to create Spitting Image. Russell died a few years ago.
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