Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>: > Ursula can have my place. She lives in Canada and knows the rules. > Besides, I'd need to have my passport renewed. Walter's vouching for > me is no longer sufficient, I understand. > > Robert Paul > reed.edu Alas, CSIS (the Canuck version of the KGB) has cracked down big time, ever since it has been determined that immigrants and philosophers are not integrating properly into the secular humanist fabric of Canadian multicultural, post-metaphysical society. RP's Wittgensteinian and Lucasian-Communist leanings have been noticed by Montreal's finest and the details of his documented alleged plottings of insurrection and perversion of the youth of the polis have been conveyed to CSIS by way of the FBI, Interpol and the Gay Boy Scouts of Canada. RP is thus denied access to all contiguous and adventitious parts of sovereign Canadian territory. He may, however, place long distance phone calls and post e-mail messages to persons in mainland Canada. He may not, under any circumstances, conduct seminars or classes at any accredited university or secretarial college, where "accreditation" is defined by the AAUP and the Catholic University of America, Washington. Mr. Paul retains, however, in virtue of his Chancelorship of Mutton College, Nebraska, the privilege of flying over Canadian territory in an authorized Canadian, American or Polish carrier (including dog-sleds) on Mondays and Thursdays between the hours of 10 and 11 am, EST. Sorry, RP, we live in a time of war and intense climate change, and I'm only a wartime professor of philosophy. Addendum: Please be warned that it is categorically imperative for and of you not to accept invitations for drinks at any of the major hotels in Canada or mainland USA. Beware of voluptuous, albeit shy, female students and university administrators with Russian accents and secular-humanist dispositions of thought, movement and character offering to show you their recently purchased thongs from Paris. They will typically look like Sandy Bullock. Vladimir Kasimir Gavrilov McCormack O'kshevsky Office of the KGB Odessa, Newfoundland ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html