--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote: > 1. Ehm, your parents read you de Sade as a child? > That explains much :) You didn't know that the Marquis wrote books for children??? "Jacques et Gilles - Naughtiest on the Playground" "Suzanne et Marie and the Magic Magic Whip from Never Never Land" to name just two... > Why, Oh Why, couldn't Daddy have sat me in his lap > as a child and read to me > stock market reports or lines of computer > programming? I'd have soooo much > more money now... :) Yes, one might have sooo much more money now and wouldn't care for fiction, drink enormous quantities of bourbon, take sleeping pills, fight with your grown children and ex sons-in-law, and would probably have a revolver skulking in his/her dresser drawer or cupboard. So, not necessarily poor, but to be surrounded by books, the best music ever and enough (or a little more than enough) to get by - there's always Elderhostel for later if you can't go to Paris, Rome Stonehenge, or Macchu Piccu in the near future. - Ed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com