With typical meticulosity (I know) I'd like to correct that allusion: it's "lives along the line", even more appropriate. No use asking for identification in these days of googlies for everyone (that came from left field, didn't it...) I'd like to express my relief that a period of manic dissociation on the list has been dispelled, instructive as it was in its characteristic violence; I came to it late as our internet connexion was interrupted for a long week & was stunned by the cumulative freakish intensity. It reminded me of gifted schizophrenics and my own verbal behaviour on acid. I admire you for dealing with it without repressing your own spontaneous emotions, Candice. I hope the tone of animosity sometimes perceptible in polemical emails never becomes the standard thing on the list. Martin