And what, pray tell, brought all this on???? Ruth At 11:24 AM -0500 1/4/04, Met History wrote: Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en 'The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 'Let the dead bury their dead, so that we ourselves may not come under the influence of the smell of the corpses.' Friedrich Nietzsche, We Philologists -- Ruth Barton [log in to unmask] Dummerston, VT -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>