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Sat 05 May 2004Choking on self-indulgenceFiction: Andrew Norton, described by the book blurb as "poet, visionary and hack" but exposed through the meandering narrative as an aimless writer, ego and self-important bore, undertakes a journey.He is not exactly trying to find himself, his real concern is to locate something to write about. His route is the A13, not as interesting as the course of the Danube or the Rhine, but then you may think, initially, that Sinclair is making the point that just as the great rivers of the world were the motorways of the past, now in our age of towering ugliness, a pilgrim has nothing to look to, except - a motorway.