Referring to one of my sentences, Mike wrote: "I could have gone all year without reading that." Paraphrasing Groucho, well, it's still early in the year. How about this instead? My slope-browed ancestors fled their ancestral canton, noted in ancient times for its barbarous bear-baiting entertainments, to settle in America, where their descendants would someday have to deal with George Bush. Tired of being baited, Atilla the Pun ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html