In a message dated 98-03-01 15:05:10 EST, you write: << REbecca, your link to AA Milne's capitalization makes sense to me because there is a certain childishness to too quickly captializing things clearly most important to the writer, and at the same time, it's an honesty about language and feeling that has the type of integrity I think Bob Dylan implied when he wrote "to live beyond the law you must be honest." will >> yeah, and it goes back to well before the 1800s, when punctuation in English was a fairly well arbitrary thing... Jim