"Nath Krishmaratala" <my@privacy.net> wrote
>
> About a similar topic, I recommend you "The Situation Is Hopeless, but
> Not Serious : The Pursuit of Unhappiness" by Paul Watzlawick. The first
> chapter, "This Above All : To Thine Own Self Be True", might interest you.
>
> You can read it at :
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0393310213/ref=sib_rdr_ex/104-3888314-7946360?p=S004#reader-page


I see it now. It's the world that is out of joint! Why did I never see it
before? (^_^)

And of course I had blithely adopted Polonius' words as mine own -
overlooking that he'd been mistaken for a rat.
More the irony, then, that I was born in the Year of the Rat.  Alas, poor
Polonius... I knew him not at all.