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> >'Nough's enough. I appreciated the liveliness David Hess initially brought >to what was, for me, becoming a pedantic soliloquy on Kent Johnson's part >(who took up after David Bircumshaw), but geeze, even I can't defend the >ongoing juvenilia. > >Poetry is more interesting. Show us some work. > >:fp > You're right, Frank. Poetry is more interesting than pedantic soliloquys but we must accept juvenilia, when it's good, as a valid form of poesy. Not that I think my frail defenses against the Johnsonian onslaught shld be seen as such. I may share some poems, but to do so on this list wld be very awkward and uncomfortable, as if I were giving a reading to a wall. In the meantime, enjoy these two passages from Hiroyuki Nishigaki's "How to Good-bye Depression" (more info can be found at http://hometown.aol.com/hnishigaki/index.htm): "Following your comfortable body-response, you had better select and have several things which you can shoot out your immaterial fiber or third attention to, concentrate on and attain happy lucky feeling, inspiration, power through the success of concentration easily. For you, such things are like a medicine, armor, castle, asylum, haven, radar, radiotelegraphy, missile, and weapon. In this respect, your life is the place where you have to learn the secret of shooting out your immaterial fiber or third attention to your work, fight, challenge, adventure, love, study, research or hobby from your body, of succeeding in concentrating on it and of attaining happy lucky feeling, inspiration, pleasure, instinct, health and power naturally through the success of concentration. If you can not learn such a secret, your life will look like a hell. Universities and graduate schools do not seem to teach such a secret. So, people with education are apt to suffer from depression more than uneducated people do." "Sticky unhealthy-unhappy-inefficient people or depressed people hate a danger, desperate action, and dangerous place, but rustling healthy-happy-successful people like them and can enjoy them." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com