http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IYAUYVNOO1AQZQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/03/nfraser103.xml or http://tinyurl.com/ytvydz ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" http://tinyurl.com/ytvydz ======================================================= GMF was my third most favourite author - after Wodehouse and Kipling. His sardonic wit and cynically sarcastic humour was as biting as it was insightful. He taught us how to enjoy a worm's eye-view of history. Flashman, his anti-hero, reminded the busybodies who are engaged in either glorifying, falsifying or revising history to suit their masters' religious, political, scientific, and cultural requirements that even the Greatest Super Heroes can have feet of clay and even they can make mistakes. To understand history and to really profit from it one must study it in total perspective, irrespctive of one's beliefs. Sadly, his was a lone voice in the modern world filled with stupid hero-worshippers, narrow-minded sycophants, rabid fanatics, and mean peddlers of hate. I shall always be grateful to Fraser for making me realise through his books the smallness of mankind. Thanks for everything, old man, and RIP. ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India