==> In article <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408311819210.10077 at flora04.slac.stanford.edu>, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> writes: > 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... Cuckoos, or cuckolds? :) I've thought for a while that yendi is the asymptote to which 'crossbreed' tends. I know I always perk up my ears when someone has trouble figuring out what house someone else is. Seems to me that the 'halfbreeds' are the ones who are angsty about being in the middle. The 'yendi' are the ones who have come to peace with it, and have decided to emphasize the ... peculiar advantages ... that go with the situation. This may not conflict with the 'secret entrance == normal entrance' theory. I like that too. - Allen S. Rout