on 9/26/04 6:51 PM, Robert Paul at Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Robert Paul > Heading off to the Vat-and-Tonsure, in downtown Portland. > (Don't tell me David Ritchie hasn't been there either--?) Ah the Vat-and-Tonsure. When first I was a faculty whelp, I met a wise old colleague there--Bob Hanson, a painter of abstracts, and a wry smiler--and we shared what Virginia Wolfe once called a "squat bottle," though it may in fact have been slenderer than that. I came home reeking of smoke which, in this household, earns one demerits. But...the Vat and Tonsure...yes, indeed. And in a new location. May I be the first to congratulate Geary on his firing? Braising god, though, does one use onions and port-wine sauce? David Ritchie Toasting the King-over-the-Water (because he was an idiot at Culloden) in Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html