> You are in great danger. So close to Halloween, too...I advise placing > all of your Ayn Rand novels in a circle in the woods of the nearest > backyard and covering them with heavy black cloth. Sprinkle the ashes > of some neutral entity (a Vonnegut novel, perhaps, or a _Harper's_ > article) over the cloth and tiptoe away.... But Matt, how ever does one turn a Vonnegut novel to ashes for such a profane purpose? As Bokonon says, "better to have the ashes of a Vonnegut novel than the words of the next ten authors on the Modern Library list". Mattis