Wait, we're having a perfectly good chat about socks and salt. Yet you want to talk about who is the best philosopher ever? Surely it's clear. Yon fellow in the burgundy tweed. With the pipe. Clothes make a man, is what we're told. Also salt is what you're worth. So put that in your mayor's pipe. Eh? David Ritchie, recalling our own lively mayors in, Portland, Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html