Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.