On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:32 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > teleports the students across the hermeneutic circle ;-) This seems only appropriate, given that I have to teach the course in a building heavily populated with sociologists. (As a consequence, I recommended the postmodernism generator website to the students: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ) In the end I went for the First Born approximation. It has a certain Rumpelstiltskin sensibility to it.