> > No apologies needed, Brendan! I think that's the ongoing lesson of this > list (and perhaps beyond it, as participants go about their lives), which > is that written language, no matter how carefully constructed, is ambiguous > and slippery. > > --tim > > > i got laughed at just the other day when someone read the beginning of a letter i was writting and i said something to the effect of " i'm sending you these icicles" those being the words "knowing too well the state in which they'll reach you" no time. paul. www.angelfire.com/nv/lime6/index.html "if one man fails to believe, there can be no faith" kenneth patchen _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com