On 2/17/06, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's truly a tragic situation. I do my best to > hide my feelings on the matter with jokes and > military blather, but it is truly tragic. So many > superb people at the mercy of technological destiny. > > As someone who learned to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye in civil defense drills in elementary school in the 1950s, read _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ as a teenager, and held my breath through the Cuban Missle Crisis, I have to take that "at the mercy of technological destiny" with a large grain of salt. -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd. 55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html