Camille -- Love Peter Carey to pieces, that's why I mentioned him. I actually read Tim Winton too -- The Riders, no? (For the rest of you, a story of a father and his daughter whose mother abandons them in their new place in Ireland. Quite damned touching & well-written). Not to mention Jane Campion, the lovely Blanchett lass ... and on and on. What's going on with the return to Puritanism everywhere? Jesus, it almost scares me as much as the militias here and the general politics of the Indian subcontinent in ... well, the Indian subcontinent. What the hell's going on? rick