> >It's only poetic justice, seeing that I came from Brisbane not three days >ago, unfortunately not finding a trace of Glassness. > >Camille Perhaps *you* were bringing a trace of Glassness to Brisbane. And one final note in my own mystery accent: Now that we know Les is from Australia, and Bessie is from Dublin, JDS's statement on the dust jacket of "F&Z" makes a bit more sense: "Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of *settlers* [emphasis added] in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses." --Bruce