Al Dente

Some little time ago I was privileged to set before the public a few of the more refined and coherent documents concerning this vagabond avatar, whose subtle yet pervasive influence wafts across the vistas of history, literature and legend like a simoom of halitosis. Revised and corrected versions are now available as a real book and a PDF ebook, both of which include a brief outline of the manuscripts' discovery and the problems involved in their translation and interpretation; as well as a timely scraping away of the plaque of myth and fantasy which has all too often discoloured and obscured the enamel of veracity. For this concise yet erudite account I am indebted to the learned Dr Dominic dos Santos SJ, whose current legal difficulties I am certain will eventually prove not entirely unamenable to a more or less acceptable resolution.