Oh, Theoden, I was just reading Olive's thread, and you've got to get some new reading material. You seem to be honing in on the weepiest stuff ever written. Maybe the Orvis catalog...? The phone book...? I've thought of a book you might like, that's just a WEE bit melancholy: "Six Records of a Floating Life"--by Fu Shen, in a Penguin edition. Books about Karate might be safe.
