In a message dated 8/31/2004 9:23:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, philiph at slac.stanford.edu writes: > I personally like to think that every house has a secret way in, even if > > Vlad doesn't know it. > > Presumably, if you can fool the top people in the House of Yendi into > thinking that you already *are* a member, that proves that you're good > enough to join :-) If (as I suspect) House Yendi is the house of cuckoos, there are a lot of members of the house who just don't know it yet. Perhaps the secret entrance is in fact the normal entrance... I don't believe you are allowed to buy into any house except Jhereg. Dzur is the only other house I remember there being a way in except for birth. john d. barbato ,od