--- You wrote: PS: from a materialistic point of view, glass is but sand (beach!) --- end of quoted material --- mmm..nice. I don't know "Down at the Dinghy" well. I am probably going to be working late tonight and will reread it when I take a break. I hadn't thought of that story when I sent the first post about water. I'm curious, though, about "Uncle Webb." I assumed you must have made a mistake, that you meant either Walt or Waker. But I looked in the story and Boo Boo does tell Lionel that the goggles belonged to Uncle Webb and Uncle Seymour. Does anyone know the geneology?