De Beauvoir tops Sartre, Spinoza and Socrates! Perhaps the secretary of the Heraclitus Society is not the right person to explain what "Richard Nixon would refer to the same man whether or not he had become President" means? Such a person cannot be the same man he was yesterday. 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