Fourth, it's got a FRIGGIN' HYPHEN in the title! (Shame on the lot of you.) The Domineditrix on 8/10/01 9:30 AM, Joseph Duemer at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Yes, Jill, I think there is something you're missing. First, the book is a > comedy (it begins & ends with a wedding); second, it piles irony upon irony; > third, it is a historical & empirical tour de force, raising questions about > the rise of American capitalism, environmentalism. It's the friggin > American bible!