"Ello" yourself, Craig. Well, if it makes you happy to dig into person lives, merry christmas. The "hypocracy" of an author, I take for granted. We all have incongruent juxtapositions in our lives, we all lead lives that are at times odd and inconsistant dichotomies. Any individuals' personal hypocracies are, well, personal. As Val Kilmer said in Tombstone, "My hypocracy only goes so far". Amen. Namaste, Thor P.S. Please check out my web page. http://www.uscolo.edu/TAC/ Actually it does bother me what the lives of my favourite authors are like. if i was to find out that a loved writer of mine had done something exceedingly amoral then i wouldn't be a part of a list like this for them. particularly if their lives stood in such a direct opposition to their books. i mean hypocrisy would come into it to such an extent that it would undermine everything they had written. saying one thing and doing another is something most of us are guilty of but writing and <italic>publishing </italic>one thing in opposition to practice (digging into the ethos of a life here)? that would bother me . . . and hello to lynda. just move bloomberg out of the way and take the comfortable chair . . . ta ta, craig ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com