[baudrunner]

I remember having to give the book "Thompson's Calculus For The Practical Worker" back to the library and never found it there again, but I was at the time, '85 or thereabouts, completely self-taught in differential calculus, a subject that a couple of my pathetic high school teachers tried to teach and failed miserably in doing because of their ineptitude, read: lack of knowledge. Anyway, I did every problem in that first half of the book, there were many at the end of each chapter, and I actually corrected a number of the ones with the wrong answers in the back. I wrote in the right answers in the appropriate places and probably commented in the margins, I don't actually remember - I was notorious for playing with the margins of my high school texts back when, usually some semi-pornographic flip-page cartoon, like a flying fuddoo or something, really quite effective in thick texts, did I mention I also did a little schoolwork on occasion? Nothing substantial mind you. Anyway, I wanted to go on to integrals but I lost interest after a while when the book failed to reappear on the shelf and I started reading computer mags. Point is, it seems to me that prigoginians, or maybe prigs for short, seem to be a lot like people who like to correct other people's mistakes. Now, I don't think that I'm a prigoginian, or a prig for that matter, but I was also one for always making a mess of my in-class assignments because of this disturbing habit I had of correcting my mistakes, you know, cross-outs, overwrites, etc but at least I was usually correct. Take note, Antonio, I was never a flunky per se. But am I a prigoginian?