At 03:00 PM 10/29/2004, you wrote: >I always thought that people liked roller coasters, though, because >they felt that they were cheating death. I think people like roller coasters (I know this is why I love them) because of the wind rushing through your hair, the palpable feeling of speed, the sudden acceleration (people LOVE acceleration) in all directions, the fluttering in your stomach, the appearance that you are surely going to die tempered by the intellectual knowledge that you most likely won't, and last but not least, because people LOVE a controlled fall. That's what walking is. fast walking, p ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html