In a message dated 11/15/2004 1:23:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I don't understand why Hunter would blaspheme whores. I panegyrize whores. They're the unsung heroines of human history. ---- Yes, but they owe a lot, talking of whom, the Duke of Edinburgh and his family. Again, I was reading in A. Holden, "The Tarnished Crown": "[Richard] Branston [founder of Virgin Atlantic airlines] found support from a perhaps unexpected quarter, the vice industry. 'The Queen does a great job of attracting tourists to Britain,' said Janet, a hooker in London's Paddington district, to an enquirer from Rupert Murdoch's _News of the World_. 'Prostitutes are part of the tourist industry. We would be ahrd hit if the royals weren't around'" (p. 313). Cheers, JL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html