David Ritchie wrote: "I also said that when it comes to students two things annoy me from the outset: ... and quoting Santayana's comment about people being doomed to repeat history. A more inane comment would be hard to imagine!" My favourite quote about repeating history: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." (Marx, _The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte_) Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html