Go with a Pynchon-mention (he names K in the Stone Junction intro): the novels of Kawabata. _House of Sleeping Beauties_ is a good place to start; _Beauty and Sadness_, _Snow Country_, and _Thousand Cranes_ are also fine. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html