Dude! I like the story but your equation is wrong. it should be xzy, given that your worded expansion of the equation was knowledge lack of knowledge lonliness. if lightknowledge, darknesslack of knowledge, and onelonliness and xlight, zdarkness, and yone. it should be this way. so in conclusion yzx is incorrect. by your own definition of the variables. Although, i could be wrong i did fail CalcIII a year ago. oh! and another, small, itsy-bitsy little thing. even though no words were misspelled, there were a few wrods incorrectly used. homophones - don't you just hate them? Sorry :( am i being nitpicky? I don't mean to be. I do the same things in my own fics. Maybe that's why it annoys me. cuz i do it too? :)