Gee Mary, how kind of you. But I'll pass - it's the kind of thing I would never get around to rading carefully, and not something I need for a current project -- it was more of an idle speculation about this funny fascination. I mean, there are very, very few Yanks who collect ancient Japanese songs, or play the ____(damn! forgot the name of the Japanese stringed instrument)or even sing Vedas in the original Sanskrit. Maybe that shows we're more provincial than others!

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