Philip Hart writes: > Um, I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but I do want to make > sure that you are aware of Samuel Beckett's play _Waiting for Godot_? > [...] > My impression is that Brust was riffing on that. SKZB might also have been riffing on Borges - this sort of referential play is typical of the latter's work, and the former's - I'm thinking of the joke about Rosenkranz and Guildenstern somewhere in Paarfi. For completeness's sake, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is a Tom Stoppard play. rone -- "Alan Alda's all we are." - Kurt Cobain