A couple years ago either someone on the Phil-Lit list or on a book discussion list (which included several philosophy & psychology types) I used to belong to someone referred to me the book "Thinks" by David Lodge. If someone here remembers suggesting the book, or is familiar with it, would you say so? I'm only in the middle of chapter 4, having just picked it up this evening (I found a scrap of paper with the title & author scrawled on it in a muddle of old papers a couple weeks ago and remembered I wanted to order the thing). I'm already wondering what of his I want to read next. I find his breadth of knowledge impressive and his writing style very entertaining. I love, e.g., this brief description of TV -- "For simple mindless distraction you can't beat early evening television. No scene lasts more than thirty seconds, and the stories jump from character to character so fast that you hardly notice how cardboard-thin they are.". But it's a truly fascinating discussion of consciousness, wrapped in a novel -- and the plot is also an aspect of the examination and exploration of what consciousness is. I wasn't, for a long time, very good with American vernacular, much less contemporary British, so I am puzzled by some vocabulary which seems to be British colloquialisms I would not likely find in a dictionary -- "swotted"? (Judy?) -- "Was it for this they swotted for A Levels...?"; "fuzz" -- "No fuzz asking you to turn out your pockets." (?). I'm really writing this post, though, to elicit reactions to or discussion of the book if anyone has read it, and to tell you who haven't that you would want to <g>. Julie Krueger ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html