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As a *quorum* is a select group, usually enough people at a meeting to make it constitutional, I figure the first line sets up the irony - as if to say 'there is the initiator/ideas person in attendance and this person is doing all the work, while in the second line - 'the rest have their heads buried in the proverbial sand, doing nothing' - if this is the set up of the irony, then *dipped in the sand* doesn't seem to deliver this effect strongly enough. A better word than *dipped* perhaps. Just guessing. Best HH >> > > THE QUORUM > > > a single drop loads the foliage > > > * > > > treetops dipped in the earth > > > >===== >"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? > And how >could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps >I have >been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing >be >explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... >Philosophical >problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas >from life, >we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate >the >application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig >Wittgenstein > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%