----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- > I think you meant the importance of being Ernest. Not really. First the title of the play itself is "The importance of being Earnest. a trivial comedy for serious people". Second, the quotation about a cynic comes according to the The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 [http://www.bartleby.com/66/97/64397.html] from Lady Windermere's Fan, act 3 (1893) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) ch. 4 not from The importance of being Earnest. My point was rather to suggest the value of non-opportunistic (earnest) behaviour. Or as Samuel L. Jackson once remarked in a film the details of which I have successfully blocked from my memory: "I am frank and earnest. In Chicago I am Frank, in New York I am Ernest." Nikos Th. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]