......... performing on the page instead of the >stage Wonderful metaphor for the (sometimes projected) prose of JDS.... He, more than any author I can think of, knew how to 'hit 'em in the back row'--which is now, I guess, an almost entirely unnecessary skill in the electronified theatre, where audio amplification devices are concealed under actors' wigs.... (Does this bother any other old fogey but me?) Cheers, Paul