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NOBLE MICE "She sometimes suspected that these games were mathematical in nature, based upon some sort of built-in computer system in those rather remarkable children which they had not yet discovered that other people did not possess." - Iris Murdoch, _The Nice and the Good_. i) Who knows if it is worth the trouble? It is in the trouble itself that its worth, its truth, is held to reside: like forcing a clam, or forcing down an oyster, if you can imagine what that's like. I won't spare you the sarcasm as I have much to spare and all the time. It's good to spread. Globules of currency stifle and digest the ancient stone heads; take villages; erase whole children. The spirit starts from its old haunts. You pester us with this and say there's more, there is more, to be taken at a pinch. A jab of prose suffices us: skywriting or the carefully laid twig or torn leaf marking the track. Safety first then numbers, then what? To the bunkers, fink. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/