A very good philosophy. I used to say a similar thing to my playwriting students - `Don't feel you have to break the rules. Just make them work for you in the way that you want them to' But yours was more eloquent (:. > C, your dad made me think of one of my favorite lines--I use it to teach > grammar in fact...to quote Bob Dylan: "To live outside the law you must be > honest." I want my students to undertand grammar, punctuation, and syntax > well enough to innovate without just saying, becuz...;)will Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest