In a message dated 10/18/99 9:58:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, marksheely@yahoo.com writes: << And I can already envision some smart-aleck ready to hit the reply button and write, "Sure, I'm bilingual; I speak American and Canadian." --Mark >> Dang it... Ok, since I Can't Say That, I'll say that maybe the only "different kinds of thought" that exist are linguistic thought and non-linguistic thought. From what I've heard the most recent research on the brain makes the idea of the "subconscious" look like a fairy tale. But, of course, the fact that the field of science devoted to the study of the human mind abandoned psychoanalytic theory long ago doesn't keep our literary critics from keeping it well alive :) Jim