Very powerful representation of self-loathing, Ken. That name in the title so cuttingly ironic. I agree about the ending with Fred, but also found paint a word picture to drive you both insane because you could combine Fragonard's aether with Georg Grosz's stench especially raw (yet how cooked... Doug On 24-Jan-08, at 7:21 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote: > PHONE SEX 2: CYRANO Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Nothing I'd read prepared me for a body this unfair. John Newlove