>They're rioting in Africa.
>They're starving in Spain.
>There's hurricanes in Florida
>and Texas needs rain.
>The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
>The French hate the Germans.
>The Germans hate the Poles.
>Italians hate Yugoslavs.
>South Africans hate the Dutch
>and I don't like anybody very much!
>
>But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
>for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
>And we know for certain
>that some lovely day
>someone will set the spark off
>and we will all be blown away.
>
>They're rioting in Africa.
>There's strife in Iran.
>What nature doesn't do to us
>will be done by our fellow man.

Boy, I started reading that and immediately, I was transported to one series of Madeleine L'Engle's novels (the Austins books). She has a character who is essentially a "poor little rich boy" who likes to quote that.

Tamar