It's very good of Will to worry about me - especially after my insulting remarks about his prose style. I was not being particularly insulting - merely stating a fact that I find him difficult to understand. I wonder would it help if I signed on for his course ? Perhaps I should then acquire an 'interpretive strategy' enabling me to make something of: ''....How readers negotiate these intentions seems to me to be very secondary in how I make meaning of literature, but now how I write...'' Perhaps not, though. You can't really teach an old dinosaur new tricks. As must be all to evident from my old threadbare thoughts expressed in my old threadbare words. Scottie B.