loving the isms! I really do have to read Sarte. Love the
anthropocentricism (just looked it up too) --- and Deb, you're
so right -- everybody needs SOMETHING greater than themselves.
Religious people have God, or something like God. People deeply
into Science have their Awe of the Universe, or awe of
mathematics, or awe of physics or whatever. It's the people who
are in Awe of Nothing - perhaps merely in awe of their own
cleverishness or in awe of their ability to get one over on
their fellow man, where the highlight of the day is, "Look what
I got away with today!" - that's the people who must truly be
unhappy to the core. I speak mostly of Lawyers, of course. "