In a message dated 9/18/99 12:20:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rbowman@indigo.ie writes: << No matter what protestations Frost or Lennon or Hemingway or their countless brothers & sisters may put up, the truffle hounds will continue to snort around with their ugly snouts while moulding imaginary meanings & symbols out of their own shit. >> Scottie, then give us some guidelines to distinguish between imaginary meanings and good readings... But then you'd turn in to a literary theorist and have to think through your ideas, by God :) Jim