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My friend Charlotte's a lefty, and very proud of _being_ Sinister instead of just _feeling_ sinister like us poor dextrous people. I still reckon you're all in league with the devil, though ;)

Tell her to get lurking on alt.lefthanders then, where she'll meet a whole host of similarly proud people (plus a couple of the obligatory pathetic trolls). As for being in league with the devil - let's see; go to heaven, get a cloud, work your way through the ranks like some McDonald's trainee and eventually manage some wings and a harp. Or worse still, you make it all the way to the top and come back as Paul Hogan or the bloke from Highway to Heaven. Not too promising really. Hell, on the other hand: full of murderers (and worse) but you're already dead, so i would imagine that they're all sitting in a corner getting depressed. Meanwhile there's all the bondage gear you could shake a cat at, and all those people that were too busy having fun on a Sunday morning to get themselves down to the local church. I think I'll go for the latter. As you may have guessed, as well as feeling (and being) sinister, I am a hopeless unbeliever - though I don't find it actually causes any pain, so can survive quite adequately without being administered to by a minister or two.

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I'm even using left-handedness as the subject of my second novel (and yes,

Yes, but if you're going to plug yr website, it might be wise to actually give the URL as well ;)

Hmmm... it looks like someone unplugged their server just as my message was going through, sending my sig plunging into the darkest depths of the back of the sofa. As my email client is convinced it sent it out, I can only guess that either it's lying, or it was trimmed off at some point, so on the basis that it doesn't make it this time either, try the following:- www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~xav The link to the stories and novel is fairly obvious, and if any of you are unsure whether or not to take the plunge and have a read, there are also a selection of quotes from people who did, so you can get a feel for people's opinions of my stuff.

I'd like to read your poor unfortunate novel, so...

Well, I hope you enjoy it - but be warned, it's about 200,000 words long and prints out at about a ream on single sided, default courier font from most printers. Well worth it though, but then I would say that. I like to think it's somewhere between Terry Pratchett and JRR Tolkien (funnier than the latter, but a better plot (i.e. it has one!) than the former). Other people have other ideas though, so check out the quotes.

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Xav I thought it was Mark. Could this be a cunning pseudonym?

Well it was more cunning in the past: on account of having a stupid surname which is all too easy to track down if someone takes offence, experience has shown me that a pseudonym can be useful, so when I got on the internet I used the name of the "character" I play in my band, Xavier Moonchild & The Rumpy Pumpy Lovesticks - hence Xav. Recently, however, I've started using a PDA to access my mail, news, etc., and the damned thing insists on sending out my real name all the time.

Bonjour et au revoir,

Vale et vale (I think - I told you, I haven't done Latin for 9 years, still, sic biscitus disintegrat) Xav (or Mark, or hairy, or whatever; it's only a label, it has no soul, what do I care what you call me) -- xav@compsoc.man.ac.uk http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~xav "It hath whirred into life" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or . "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net" . List rules, FAQ etc., http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . >>> B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at <<< . >>> http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html <<< . Nee, nee mun pish etc. -----------------------------------------------------------------------