When I started to read Mattis's reply on `phoniness', I had a terrible, if momentary, feeling of unreality. Was it possible ? Could I have written this myself & somehow forgotten ? The beautifully indented paragraphs, the paragraphs themselves not too long, the cogency of the thinking, the lucidity of the prose. (Though I think he calls himself Hochman, actually.) Congratulations, Mattis, you've scored full 96 on the Bowman Limpidity Index. How I wish a few others would emulate as splendidly as you have the done the example I try ever so patiently to set.