>These prophecies need to be read interms of their >contemporaries, or we just end up reading it & predicting the end of the >world in 1979. the world's gonna end in 1979?!?! that doesn't leave a lot of time... --- "[A] single cup evens out life and death, Our ten thousand concerns unfathomed, and once I'm drunk, all heaven and earth vanish, leaving me suddenly alone in bed, forgetting that person I am even exists. Of all our joys, this must be the deepest" -- Li Po, "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon"