----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Yuri Tulupenko has incited me to put another riddle to the list. This paragraph is from a famous novel, from which a marvelous film was done. Usually economists use metaphors taken from more "popular" fields in order to be easily understood by common people. Some writers seem to prefer the opposite way. In order to explain what "kipple" is, our (veiled) writer says: "Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody is around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there is twice as much of it. It always get more and more" ... "There is the First Law of Kipple", he said. "'Kipple drives out nonkipple'. Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple. ... It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving towards a final state of total, absolute kippleization." (Chapter Six, p. 57). Good luck, searchers. Any comments are welcome, about Gresham's law, Entropy, Economics, and even on kipple. Manuel Santos [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]