In a message dated 5/15/2004 6:34:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND PARIS. How about _Sexus_,_ Nexus_, and _Plexus_ by Henry Miller? If not a lot of bumming, there's certainly a lot of borrowing money. _The Subterraneans_ by Kerouac and _City of Night_ by John Rechy fit. Then there are individual bums like Marmaladov in _Crime and Punishment_. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html