Courses I'm not teaching: Theory and Practice of Studies Studies of Of The Body In Western Bathtubs Foregrounding Themes in James Bond Film Scores Never More and Less The Trope of the Imperial Banana C, A Tree in the Forest, Falls Some Hegemonies I Have Known Concepts From Empty Pantry Shelves Further and Farther Theory of Theories Meta and Quite Liked Her While Waiting at the Department of Environmental Quality: I dared to think the line of cars was moving forward quickly. Now it's stuck. It's a goddam truuuuuuuuck holding us up. The woman driving it has stopped to chat with the woman working. What on earth can they discuss? Either the vehicle passes the emissions test, or it does not: simple, binary. To keep my blood pressure low, I open "The American Scholar" I've brought with, and find, of all possible things, a poem about North Berwick, which is where my Edinburgh relatives used to go their holidays. John Updike played golf there, in the rain, and wrote a poem about Bing Crosby and death. My turn's coming. 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