And a book about an American living in Dublin for a while is really interesting too, because you could deal with all the anti-American feeling here, and Irish people's condescending declarations that they 'quite like individual Americans, but hate America'. I think we must drive Americans here to distraction, by constantly laughing at the words they use, with the implication that ours are necessarily better, and by casually saying that our systems of government, education, et cetera, are clearly better than theirs, and expecting them to agree with us on that as a matter of course.