Letter to the Twins
Don Paterson, 17 April 2003
“... and Remus (from ‘ruma’, the dug), as we had before, because they were found sucking the wolf. Plutarch, Parallel Lives Dear sons – for I am not, as you believed, your uncle – forgive me now my dereliction. In those nine months the single thought that grieved me most was not your terrible instruction in the works of men, the disillusionments ... ”