Freakin' amazing duuude! I love this whole thing J.D. And I'll be saying this all day "...a tear in the fabric of death and life..." Of course I'll get punchy late in the day and put on Shakespearean aires as I recite it one minute, or mimic Cap'n James T. Kirk the next... And then I'll obsess over yet another of your lines: "... the virulence of the last night still hanging off the tongue like a loose thread..." as they weave sinuously into my brain and nest there. Love it!! SD