Of course, Socrates lived, if he lived, in a culture that prized male friendship above heterosexual monogamous unions. In our culture all males get is "bowling night." For Jackson to anagrammatically twist "bowling night" into something that defiles heterosexual monogamous unions and "bowling night" itself is a vast smear at all we thought we stood for, and few will stand for it, nor should they be expected to stand. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html