Oh Scottie, Scottie, Scottie. He *was* joking you know. He was so knocked out by Venice that he made a deliberately pseudo-boorish judgement on it so as to not make me feel totally jealous and left-out. Oddly I cannot ascertain whether you are slinging an equally ironic volley back at me - if so one of us must break the cycle of irony and it was me. Just for the record my boyfriend and I have been together for two years and have singlehandedly broken just about every cliche, judgement, and stereotype about young couples. We are remarkably non-hangupy and although we have little in common in some ways (other than a bristling intellect and I must regret to tell you he beat me by two points in the Australian final exams - I got a 94% he got a 96%), we love each other very much and I am not swayed a bit by all these online proposals I keep getting. (: Maybe I better keep irony out of my emails, it's only been getting me into trouble lately. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest > Camille, > > When you get back from the Isle of Tuscany - or even > before you go - you should ditch that boy friend. > His image of Venice re-establishes at a stroke all > the brutish & insensitive associations with our antipodean > friends that you've done so much to demolish over the > past year. > > Scottie B.