Beneath the surface; Baksh takes Best back in time and leaves him bleeding inside Not unlike Shadow’s Bassman, Mystic Prowler in mih head, pleading with people to look beneath the surface. I have just read Vaneisa Baksh’s ‘Sins of the Father’ column. And not for the first time, I have told myself I’m not going to read her stuff. Not for the first time, this week’s piece took me to a familiar place and left me hankering after a yesterday that Shakespeare told us long ago is simply never coming back… …except in the nostalgia of now unreliable memories and romantic mindsets.