> I myself think Salinger was having a bit of fun poking at academics > who rely upon "Zeitgeist" as if it were the SHIFT key. It's a nice > word, rolls around on the tongue, sounds authoritative enough to > stand on its own. And depending on the context, it can be nicely > abstract, to the point where nobody around you knows what the hell > you're talking about! first time I ran into the word Zeitgeist was thanks to JDS. I couldn't figure out what the heck he was talking about. What the hell was a "Time Ghost?" -j