Dear Gordon, and other esteemed colleagues: I recommend "Metaphors We Compute By," a lecture delivered by John Lawler to Information Technology Division of the University of Michigan. (He is a professor of linguistics there.) You can find the original here: <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/meta4compute.html>, or read another version in the anthology "Figures of Thought" (Dona J. Hickey; Mayfield Publishing, 1999). Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Cyber-Yenta Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org Skype: Deborah909 Twitter: Deborah909 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909 "Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, that we must not strike too hard upon others....They pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper Gentleness to us in our censures." -George Savile (1633 - 1695)