The wind is throwing itself on my window, low gliding clouds outside moving like people in old movies, way to fast. And here I sit, reading through a million bananafish e-mails and wondering why on earth you people get all crazy as soon as I turn my back on you. Even Tim the moderator seems to raise some hell from a contributor or two! I do sometimes get just a little tired of discussions about using lower case letters only. And often feel this might be the wrong place to thoroughly discuss immensely complex subjects like sexual preferences. (If I say “Salinger is a bad writer”, many would disagree but probably no one here would feel personally offended. If I’d say, for example, “homosexuality has a purely cultural explanation”, many would feel very much offended. And even if not, many would demand a full-length explanation on what I meant. Still others would state that my choice of description reveals a naive and problem focused approach. Easily stigmatized discussions are not easily dealt with at a place like this. Or any other place outside the comfort of your closest friends or your local sect.) Still I find a great anthropological value in these discussions. They tell me a little something about the authors. Too often I can’t remember exactly who said what, but after a while my little neural network inside has formed something to go with the words. So, the yawners out there: if you can stand them, some of us find a value in skimming through these posts. And sometimes we can’t help but fall in the trap ourselves, joining the 4711:th post about the importance of writing exclusively about ol’ JDS on this listserver. Well, enough of that. There are a few comments I’d like to make on some of the subjects as such, but for now I’ll just say that I totally enjoyed Will’s latest poems, and that a few days ago, Scottie wrote something that unexplainably made me want to give him a huge hug and a kiss. I totally disagreed, of course, but I felt something close to love for the old misanthrope. /TLM ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com