In a message dated 6/10/2004 10:35:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dsavory@xxxxxxxxx writes: an endless suburban miasma of RV dealers, Krispy Kremes, ticky-tacky Christian churches and girlie bars with Texas-style couch dancing. _____ What's worse: that so much of the industrial world is blighted with stripmalls and trash, or that people lack imagination to create anything new that is different from stripmalls and trash? Just before the old theaters on 42nd Street were bulldozed to make way for Disney, some artist had the idea of using the theater marquees to post fuddling haiku and inscrutable poetry. It should have remained that way. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html