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I found Grapes of Wrath tedious and moanful.....more tedious even than my brethren Faulkner. It read like some early labor union movement docu-drama.

When I think of Huxley, I think of psychedelic drugs....I think he and Hoffman (of LSD discovery fame) were pals were they not?

We go for an ultrasound Monday to determine if to induce. The Nurse P/A who saw my wife 3 weeks ago while the doc was on vacation really overreacted and got my wife all concerned about a truly early arrival. It will in all probability be a couple of weeks early if delivered next Tuesday but not because of any crisis other than the fact that the young lad is runnning out of room....my wife being 5'2" and 95 lbs in normal times. I'm sorry we reacted to the fears of the nurse and sort of jumped the gun here. If the baby is over 7.5 lbs, the doc has already said he'll go C-section. OBs these days are very very cautious and deliberate....and with good reason. Trial lawyers await any mistake with baited breath.

You will be one of the first to know.....we went to a neighborhood Halloween party tonight and Wade's first trick or treat....a nice crisp autumn evening. The moments for which life is meant to be lived....it was wonderful and nice to feel a sense of community.

Warm Regards.

We argree utterly, about the abominable " GRAPES OF WRATH ". :-)

Huxley and Hoffman were pals. Huxley was also friendly with Timothy Leary and an LSD user. Since he used " soma " , in BNW , I assume that he was part of the cocain using crowd, of the " bright young things ", in the teens. He was a minor ( perrifferal ) part of the Bloomsbury Group and as such, would have been an early proponent of such things as the " free love " movement, Bohemianism, and all that that entailed. Things I had absolutely NO bloody knowledge of at 14 and a good thing too. Heck, I had to spell out contraceptive, to my mother, and ask her what that was ( whilst I was reading that book ) , because I had no idea what THAT was. I was deathly embarassed, when she explained what the word meant. Now, 14 year olds know what that word means. How times have changed !:-(

Well,dear friend, you certainly gave me quite a turn, when you over reacted to what the nurse had said. You and your dear wife deserve only the VERY best ! Tell her I said so and the present, for the new wee one, will be on it's way, as soon as I hear. I just hope that he doesn't have large feet ... the booties look so tiny to me. :-)

I dunno - your brother Faulkner is mighty tedious, even in small doses.

Of course, the Empress Palpatine claims I have all the reading depth of a 10 year old, based on my usual selection of what she describes as "romance novels for men" - you know, Clancy, Cussler, Ludlum, etc.

to ally your fears a bit, I spent a lot of time in the far east, and the women are tiny, few reaching the size of your wife. However, the size of the babies at birth is generally the same as with western babies.

Female bodies are a lot more 'flexible' than we men would normally think.