Recalling past coversation here? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/the-big-question-is-iceland-the-happiest-place-on-the-planet-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it-832105.html & Sigur Ros, etc (or 100 professional artists per 300,000 population) Doug Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much contemplation to our western fact: to Rise, Decline, Fall, to futility and larks, to the bright crustaceans of the oversky. Phyllis Webb