Bits: Imagine a painting titled "the Immoderate Inconveniencing of the Sabine Women." How nice it is that they've told people that holding a cell phone to your ear might result in brain cancer; instead of hearing only one side of a call in say a grocery store or leafy avenue, you now get both. "Culture is a very strange aspect of being human..." was how it began. "The Hon. Mrs. Vereker," by The Duchess, author of "Mollie Bawn, "Doris," "Phyllis," "Valerie," "Airy Fairy Lillian," "Beauty's Daughters," "O Tender Dolores," etc. No driven car is without a driver, all written words have a writer; all driving, but only some writing, transports. David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html