At 10:49 AM 2/10/98 -0600, Goslowsky, George wrote: >Yes! Yes! Yes!! I have read that book and completely forgotten about that >description. >Anyway, I thought that it would be a closer description of the ingredients >for Endorphin Rush than what is on the bottle. You know, as soon as he brought up the conjunction of habaneros and cigar butts, I thought, "Ah, yes- somewhere along the line, little Neal has tasted Endorphin Rush!" (I'd just recently had it for myself for the first time). Excellent writer, fine book. "Snow Crash" was funnier but "Diamond Age" was a nice extrapolation of some of the first book's themes. Jonathan *************** <bold>Conservative</bold>, <italic>n.</italic> A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce, <italic>The Devil's Dictionary</italic>