27 SEPTEMBER 1968, Page 35

Homer's ghost

Sir: Christopher 1-iollis's verses in your issue of 23 August provoke me to reply: Dear Mr Hollis, pity me, For knowing not your tutor, Who might have been a better man, Equipped with a computer.

We gave to ours two miles of tape, To test the scholars' whims, We tried them out on both the poems, On other works, on all the hymns.

Some theories did stand up, Some lifeless did fall down. In this Olympic Contest then, Your tutor gained no crown.

I am sorry that you seem to feel, Computers go with cranks, With this amount of work to do, You would, for them, give thanks.

A. Q. Morton The Abbey Manse, Culross, Dunfermline, Fife