but jeez, I have been reading Being and Time and it is brilliant and methodical. I've also been dabbling more in Wittgenstein and his persistent aphorisms. so many comtempoets have cited him that I felt obliged to avoid him. and tho that's stupid thinking ("listen to yourself"--OOOF!!), it was just as well, since I'm more receptive to him now than I could've been just a few years ago.