>Does anyone recognize the passage? (I've replaced the protagonist's name with >the letter 'Q'.) Not me, but (using a contemporary technique David R once deployed to discern which of two purported poems was genuine) googled it. My excuse for this shameful behaviour was that I wanted to make sure it wasn't Joyce. It is a futher sign of the times that after the first google entry (that gives the source) the next is "granny creampie video", and next "bdsm in holland" usw. D