>If you don't know how to love Mary Poppins, my heart weeps for you, for you are either cynical or jaded or just tragically grown up.

I don't know if this sentence was meant to be taken completely literaly, but I shall assume it was, since arguing with it gives me something to do for a while.

I have to admit, I haven't seen Mary Poppins for a LONG time. I don't know how long ago it was, but it was long enough that I don't remember many things about it. However, it seems a bit biased to think that someone should love something just because it has properties that lend it deeper meaning than at first glance. For example, many of my friends are very serious musicians. They can hear things in music that I have no hope of ever appreciating, because music simply isn't where my passion lies. I often wish I could love music as much as they do, but that's just not the way things work. Just because I know there's a deeper level to the music than I am aware of, doesn't mean I have to love it. Another example is that of me and circles. To me, circles are amazing. If you just think about how perfect they are, how many mathematical properties can be derived from them, how they can simbolize both emptiness and infinity all at once, how they personify so many physical laws... It completely amazes me, but if I start going on about this to my friends, they look at me strangly and sometimes threaten to stab me in the arm with a fork unless I shut up. True, they may be a tad more violent than they should be, but I'm never under the impression that there's any character flaw stopping them from seeing what I see in circles, but just that that isn't their area. Even if I explain to them what I see in various geometric shapes, and they recognize all of it, they by no means have to love it as much as I do.

So, while I can see how you could feel sorry for people who can't get out of Mary Poppins what you can, I wouldn't agree with you that those people are neccesarily jaded, cynical, or tragically grown up.

But then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about and may be missing your point completely.

Wes - "How many posts have I ended with something to that effect?"