I am grateful to John Dougill, Kyoto, for his thoughtful post here recently (e.g., 'humans respond more to vitality than to morality'). It fitted neatly with some thoughts of mine on the life-force in Hitchcock's films, which I discuss in my Hitchcock book and also currently on the Home Page of the Hitchcock Scholars/'MacGuffin' website. Thanks, John - Ken Mogg (author, 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story', UK edition - I disown the cut and 'simplified' US edition). http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu