Eric concludes: "As for 'reason and faith' making intellectual headway, I think you confuse headway with head count." Fascinating. While the two are not identical, what could 'headway' mean if it didn't also involve headcounts? _____ Middlebrow popularity is one thing, solid content another. That a whole bunch of people thought Jean-Paul Sartre was a great philosopher at one point, does not make it so. Eric PS: Harold Bloom referred to CS Lewis as a "vulgarian," by the way. Thought that was amusing. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html