Two people - Wayne Herbert who now lives in Singapore and Linda McCleskey

who lives in Seattle, both such dear people - sent me this:

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then - to

loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more

than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone - "to relax," I told myself - but I knew it wasn't true.

Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all

the time.

That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I turned off the TV

and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her

mother's.

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