> I guess I'm special, then. :) Any teacher who has me in a class finds herself attaching maximum length requirements pretty fast... For the narcissistic, adding is the easy part. It's subtracting our own immortal prose we find physically painful.

LOL. You're not the only one; I've had to do exactly what you've described. However, I'll qualify the statement by adding that nearly all of the assignments I've had to cut down were for essay contests with incredibly short maximum limits. I haven't had any teachers who've found my essays too long to handle. Yet.

Although my AP English teacher last year *did* describe my sentences as Faulknerian, heh...

-- codeman"seriously, though, how can anyone write a decent essay in only 200 words?"38