Larkin. When I was twenty I thought that the conventional was normal, and though it felt like I was asking myself to enter a lifelong prison I wasn't trying to be normal, I simply didn't know there was another option. I figured that one out over a few years (thank you, therapy, thank you, sex and drugs). But I don't think I've ever worried about my normalcy, tho I know damned well that I'm not particularly conventional. Until I was maybe 45 I thought, in fact, that I and others like me were something like the measure of normalcy and woud refer to the rest of the world as "weird." I know better now. Mark At 09:01 AM 1/18/2005, you wrote: >Mark Weiss wrote: > >>A better question might be "can I really read another word of anything >>so boring?" >> >>Mark > >Larkin himself or the essay? > >ken > >-- >Kenneth Wolman >Proposal Development Department >Room SW334 >Sarnoff Corporation >609-734-2538