“Finished, at last, a six-month-old pile of fan letters. Mostly from Japan, beautifully written, generally on very delicate paper, and nearly always beginning, 'I am a schoolgirl of 14', as if to add a frisson of danger for the reader. The language is fine, too. Python is translated as 'Gay Boys' Dragon Show' on Japanese TV, and one of the letters eulogizes 'Upper Class Twit of the Year', but calls it, splendidly, 'The Aristocratic Deciding Foolish No. 1 Guy.' ”