While I have little experience with profanity, eloquent or otherwise, strikes me that profanity is a marvelous way of clearly expressing displeasure. While I am sure that MT was indeed eloquent in his utterances on paper, that would probably have been after a number of rewrites. Somehow, I have the feeling that were MT to strike a smart blow to one of his digits with a hammer one fine day, the profanity, while not particularly eloquent perhaps, would express exactly how he felt about the occurance. I have a small supply of most profane expressions of the lowest sort that supply a great measure of comfort at such times. Thanks. Myron Gershenson