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Yes, I *really do* know how to spell that word, mycology, though I'm really a mycophagist, only, and a dilettantish one at that who only eats non-agarics. I don't know, "David Bircumshaw," but I'd say (insofar as you are speaking of an unjustifiable rudeness in poetry, whatever that could be) that there would be different ways of dealign with the issue. You might, for example, say to the offended party, requesting their confidence, that it was I, "David Bircumshaw," who offended you, and I'm sorry. Or you might be more honest yet, and allow the author who committed the rudeness to beg forgiveness in her own name, as it was, after all, she who said the bad thing. But I would imagine there would be other ways of dealing with the problem, and all of them might be perfectly ethical. It's a case by case situation, isn't it? Why are the English so famously adverse to fungi? Kent ------------ Still tentative here, Kent, and not necessarilly on focus, as I've just been out for a pint following England's victory over Greece in Athens, with a brilliant winning thirty-yarder goal by Becks, even tho' he has a silly voice, but I'm still mullingly pondering this matter of identity. Say, for example, if 'David Bircumshaw' misbehaves in some way, say for the sake of argument he's rude to someone, without justification. Well then I, as the allegedly responsible adult, have to take some kind of ownership of that issue, not without reluctance, for sure, nor necessarily perfectly, but I have to to try to 'be there', to sort out the mess that twit's got me into this time. I don't mean this as a condemnation of other cultures, I'm just talking from where I am now and here. And, also, surely dismissing the self can translate so horribly easily into unconcern for others, like in old people's homes, or viscious violent trenchlines of the past? Impressed by the mycology. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com