Tim:	Whitman was more than a poet – he was a cultural icon.
Ted:	Of what?
Tim:	Of individualism.
Kris:	Yeah man – he was the Allen Ginsberg of the 19th Century.
Terri:	You could say that. Or perhaps Ginsberg was the Whitman of a century later?
Tim:	(shrugging his shoulders) Whatever. . . Rhetoric has no end, but human life is short.
Sam:	(waving good-bye) So is this conversation.