1. because i do not hope to turn again because i do not hope because i do not hope to turn That's just my tribute to a couple of noted poetry figures. 2. Goatham: doesn't George Bush claim to be from there? Or it might be Bill Clinton. I'm talking distant origins, not instant gratifications. 3. 'The construction of reality' is a term to be careful of. It all depends what you mean 'by', as they say, so I'm told. But for a pretty extreme take, try chapter one of Dick Rorty's 'Contingency, Irony and Solidarity' (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989). If I'm not mistaken, it begins with a sentence like 'About two centuries ago, the idea that truth was something made rather than found began to take hold in Europe'. (I'll award myself a cash prize if I've got that right, miles away from my copy.) 5. 'On Camber Sands I can connect Nothing with nothing. The broken fingernails of dirty hands.' That kind of thing. I wouldn't know, I've never been. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinister's a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+