I'm curious, Amy, why did you pick the membername "Tenjiro", if you don't mind my asking...?

Lady Jean is right on...men love to hear themselves talk. :-) As a man, I can absolutely confirm it. This is probably particularly true of existentialist men, but it's a given for most men anyway. Here and there is a strong, silent one (as in the old cowboy movies), but even those guys love to hear themselves talk...they just dole it out in very occasional snippets in order to play hard to get and build up nerve-jangling suspense while they prepare their next brief and devastating remark. It's quite an effective technique, I imagine, although I'm not that type at all. Think Clint Eastwood, teeth clenched down on a cigar, eyes narrowed... I'm not even vaguely like that.

At the total other end of the scale from the strong, silent man is Woody Allen! Thankfully, I'm not much like him either. I'm somewhere in the middle of the range.

- LH