Out of the blue God or the devil or maybe Coca Cola spoke to me last week. With the radio silent, I was driving by our local pizza shop. Some fellow was unloading stacks and stacks of cans of fizz. Into my head, as if this were not the road to Aloha and Hillsboro but somewhere in the Bible, and as if I were not an unbeliever, and as if I were in potentially in favor of soda, there came something about people needing a little sweetness in their lives. I have to concede it's true. But if I find out it was Coca Cola talking through my SAAB, I shall be mightily annoyed. english is a garage stocked with tools notwithstanding is my favorite this week it makes me think there should be a notwithsitting and maybe a notwithwithering too 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