PROFILE	ARTHUR JAMES THOMSON
	Born: Blackpool, May 11, 1965. Creative writing: circa 1986. Self description: idler and taxpayer. Loving the villages and remote places in the British Isles. Influential experientals: Stratford 1986, Dublin 1990, Soderhamn Denmark 1990, Huddersfield 1997, Jogjakarta Indonesia 1999, more to come. Influential relations: Reverend Matthew Sutchcliffe of Huddersfield, my great-great grandfather Julius Thomson, my lover, muse and steady companion Allyssa Sheffield, my lady friend and inspiration Nin Red of Jogjakarta Indonesia, my dear fellows Nathaniel Crawford of Wollongong Australia, George Lumierre, Lennon Burke, Ian McKinsey, Dennis Buckley and Louis Welch of London, Steve Davidson of Flint America. To thee I be.

"As monumental bronze unchanged his look:
A soul that pity touch'd but never shook:
Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier,
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook
Impassive - fearing but the shame of fear -
A stoic of the woods - a man without a tear."
(Campbell)