Getting to watch Naipaul interviews on your tele screen is always a rare treat - he is one big reclusive literary figure that I know - second only to Salinger perhaps! Thanks for the clip, Capt.. .Now tell me, does he also, like Rushdie, have a 30 yr old voluptuous wife? :-) Some charm it holds for women of beauty eh - your brilliant mind. Doesn't matter even if you were 'unhandsome' or were a cross between Woody Allen and an African Hippo! :-) My advanced Christmas greetings - have a good one! Carpe diem