> We know the term, Rachel, though I suspect we wouldn't have coined it,
given
> the nature of the UK involvement in Kenya.
Robin, a lot of people here weren't high on it either, after Tom Wolfe's
piece (in the old Herald Tribune magazine, I think, that later became *New
York*). I was one of them.
As for Deacon Gow, he's probably wandering around a graveyard in Hallowell,
Maine.
I keep meaning to get up there and see him.
Kilmarnock Royal Infirmary! Oh my.
Rachel
> > P.S. Speaking of which -- Robin, you were born in Ayrshire? My great
great
> > great great grandfather James Gow was born there too.
>
> Born in Kilmarnock Royal Infirmary, then seven years growing up in Darvel
> (where, apparently, there is the highest concentration of people surnamed
> "Hamilton" anywhere in the world) then escaped to the real world ...
>
> Give my regards to your many-times great grampa Gow if you see him.
>
> Robin
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