i'm proposing an innovative new center for excellence and feline creativity there will be monitors in the halls with like signage at every turn we shall prescribe right behavior we shall cross disciplinary boundaries listing clawing one-o-one and couch painting as near alternatives we shall embrace diversity hiring instructors of all colors and stripes we shall leave no cat behind instructors will be instructed to give students explicit and clear and creative new choices also three treats each they will explain how one eats and breathes they will demonstrate expansion and mastication thereafter the task will be to measure outcomes we are expecting a very high pass rate dropouts will count also near misses we will worry only about retention for which we propose digital solutions Scots are known worldwide as people who keep their aspirations in check, and tartan; Freud would have called it suppression, but did he ever meet one? I can't imagine a Scot paying for years of therapy. Frogs and wolves and who knows what yowl to summon up their blood, stiffen the sinew. That Australian Gibson, pretending to be the Norman, Wallace, blethered on in English about freedom. Would this inspire a man to fight? Especially if they were Gallic speakers, scratching their bites, banging on targes, muttering, "See yon arse on a horse. He's no yours." But that's not the whole story. Elsewhere in time when the ref blew for kickoff, and all the best anthems had been sung, they'd rise again, like you do, from behind ambush hides, springing up like thistles, coveting others' coos without let, hindrance, check. 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