Sir, - The most brilliantly inventive and incisive piece of writing I have read in any newspaper for the past year was provided by Kevin Myers's Irishman's Diary of September 20th on the White House Opinion Catchers reeling in and out of the basement vomitorium as they try to digest seemingly endless wafts of equivocation and excuse-making for unmitigated evil.
Aside from that terrible issue, I must say that as an American living in Ireland the populace's reaction to Mr Myers's writings is one of the deepest of all pancakes my brain has tackled here. At his most wickedly clever and most morally troubled, Mr Myers is a better (braver, fresher, funnier) columnist by far than any in the United States.
In such confusing times, the world desperately needs writers of such a searching intellect - yet in Cork at least, he is nearly universally derided. Is every column perfectly pitched? Come here: you try it, four days a week into eternity. - Yours, etc.,
David Monagan, Military Hill, Cork.