since i've already broken the ice, please allow me the leverage to yap even more :P i can put myself on Galt's shoes and feel what he did was not completely incomprehensible to my mind. human being is a weak animal when it comes to certain emotions and we are prone to wrongdoings. everything is like an addiction. a smoker smokes because he cannot get his mind out of it. he knows its no good for him but still can't help doing it. i am trying to analyze this situation on a neutral basis. correct me if i tend to become biased to a side. to me, in this case, there ain't any question of what is wrong or what is right, what is moral or what is immoral, what is ethical or what is unethical and whether things are within the boundary of the set of rules set by the so-called society. i would like to see this in absolute terms not relative. your love for parents/relatives/friends/well-wishers cannot be compared with that for your life-partner. you are his/her soul-mate and "sole" mate. why didn't Romeo has two Juliets? Why was Juliet not able to love Tom, Dick or Harry as much as she did Romeo? okay fair enough, they were TRUE lovers and world now has become too business oriented. even then, what i feel is, if the love and respect that one has for his/her partner is COMPLETE, he/she will never fall for another being. the tendency arises only if: 1) you're not serious about him/her 2) you're not getting what you want from him/her 3) "grass is greener on the other side" thing starts to take you over all these cases are aftermath of being in hallucination which is a myth....not it's counterpart called "real" which is being in LOVE. :P that said, to me, john is in his own league of honesty. he wrote something that others would perhaps not even talk with their close ones. if this was a note from a guilt-ridden person, which it could very well be :P, then i would plead him NOT guilty :P LooTe