“The [Burns] Fellowship should have been awarded, if at all, not to me—a family man, teetotal, moderately pious, not offensive to sight or smell, able to say the right thing in a drawing-room—but to my collaborator, my schizophrenic twin, who has always provided me with poems. I see him as a Dunedinite. He, or somebody rather like him, inhabited this town twenty years ago, daring to use my name and wear my features. I have described him in an unpublished and unpublishable novel. There his name is Horse because he is frequently being ridden by everybody he knows, including Fern, his girlfriend...”
-- From “Conversation With an Ancestor” in The Man on the Horse, James K Baxter, University of Otago Press, 1967.