mblackwl@ix.netcom.com(Matthew R Blackwell) wrote: >Anyone who's >ever driven through Kansas (sorry, Karen) and seen featureless fields >of wheat for hours upon hours of driving time will never again support >the 55 mph speed limit.... > Highway hypnosis is a serious problem in places like that. People literally hypnotize themselves starting straight ahead at the featureless landscape for hours at a time.. It's worse at night. I've seen places in Kansas where you an look in any direction and literally not see *anything* except perfectly flat wheat fields to the horizon. --------------------------------- -- Terry Austin, Grand Inquisitor, Loyal Order of Chivalry & Sorcery Hyperbooks Online Bookstore http://www.hyperbooks.com/ For sale Now: Fantastic hand painted woodcuts, by Eric Hotz Signed and Numbered. [end of message ... text also available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=3353175&hilit=HYPNOSIS> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&3328754 Score: 78 Subject: Re: Rebuttal to Phelan's attack on the Sciambra memo