Damien Sullivan writes: Also, how long have Dragaerans been literate? Or had printing presses? (They do have those, right?) "Rutter's Rag" seemed to imply this was so. rone -- {Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties. - Garry Trudeau