I might mention that the thing I forgot to put in the poem--I fear I issued the thing before it was done, rushing to make it a Sunday poem, but we'll patiently ignore the typo and other errors and just call it good--was that above the jousting and general Renaissance foolery, high in the hills, ther= e came the sound of automatic weapons firing. Some gun club was celebrating, possibly a tad prematurely, Bush's lifting of the assault weapons ban. No matter how huge my sword is...those guys win. After school today, the girls and I went to Office Depot, where they manage= d to gather up forty five dollars worth of pens and pencils and folders and who knows what? What bothered me was not the bill so much as the fact that it was spent at a rate of less than a dollar a minute. The lighting in our Office Depot is energy-saving; the company is now marketing itself as a "green company." After about five minutes under these lights, I was done, cooked, ready for wide open spaces and the threatening clouds that Northwesterners so love. I kid you not. Well, I kid you, but three people today told me how much they were enjoying the change in the weather. "Isn'= t this great?" was the more or less what they said. "This" was a return to wet and blowy weather. So while I was waiting, I came up with a question. There's this famous lin= e from "Twelfth Night," "She sat like Patience on a monument." Does anyone know what statue Shakespeare might have seen that gave rise to the line? A= t one website there was this "helpful" answer: Does it not have connections with the statue The Three Graces? I think the others were Grace Kelly and Gracey Fields. doristwonk=A0Thurs 14/08/03 =20 Refer all responses to Inquiring Minds, c/o this list. David Ritchie Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html