Well, honestly Wes, I DO beg to differ. I'd long forgotten whatever I may have read of Vonnegut but when Robbie sent in that extract I could only think it was a joke of some kind. Jerome has his faults, God knows, but he'd be physically incapable of writing that lugubrious, cloth-eared ho-ho-ho. Tell me you ARE all having a merry jest between yourselves. Scottie B.