Liked it all, Hal, its moves, but especially, 'the usual down-draft of platitudes.' Doug On 21-Jul-10, at 3:07 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > The Japanese Lunchbox Hoax 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 if you dribble past five defenders, it isnt called sheer prose Tom Leonard