I would love to see that 'cartoon Tristram Shandy.' In fact, I haven't heard about anything else by him since I found The Waste Land on sale here... > >High on the list of books I daydream about writing is The Waste Land - The >Novel, which would assimilate all the fragments into a realistic portrait of >20s London. About as anti-Modernist a project as you can get, and in any >case the copyright problems would be too much (as they nearly were for >Rowson, apparently). Or, a kind of pomo magic realist fantasy (alternate history?)... Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm But the dead are wholehearted about being dead, no half measures no shilly-shallying: they're committed, dedicated to purposelessness. Al Purdy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%