wombat & 111op- you two crack me up!
111op- may I ask what kind of training? I've never heard of asymptote until today (in fact, I don't even know how to pronounce it until I look it up in the dictionary). BTW, are you working "overtime" again???

Oh, I'm overeducated, I tell you -- in math-related fields. So asymptotes, asymptotics, asymptopia, etc. These are the words that come to mind immediately.

Actually a friend once joked with me that if I take the asymptotic view in life, then I'll die in the long run anyway. So nothing really matters.

Yes I've to stay late because I'm not done with work today.

Ok, I'm done for the day. I'm going to skip wombat's clue because I've no idea where and how to look, even.

Thanks for the link on Chinatown buses, yk. It's interesting. I also read about the deaths in the local papers (the Times reported it, and also Time Out). But the sentiment expressed at the end is quite true also -- that you get what you pay for. I've used them for both Boston and DC. I guess there the savings are even greater because the train is probably at around $200 round-trip.

Anyway, hope your parents' experience with them wasn't so bad. I'll have to look into the NJ transit option. I actually visited Philadelphia many years ago -- probably ten years ago or so?

By the way, regarding asymptote, I'm not sure if the example you gave is quite right. It's probably more of the reverse. For example, y = 0 is an asymptote of the function y = 1/x. (Here the graph of 1/x never reaches the y = 0 line.)

William Wordsworth?

Indeed - Billy Wordsworth himself - care to explain why?

Would if I could but I can't so I won't.
I think it has something to do with dafodils.

Dafs work for Ullswater but what about Thomas Page? Still nothing in my clue that asked to explain - so it's your clue

Still can't figure out what Thomas Page had to do with Ullswater or Wordsworth.

Clue: This writer, who was at one time in the seminary, underwent psychoanalysis with Jung, and after emigrating from his home country, lived out his days in Switzerland.

Name the writer:2 words, 1st word-6 letters, 3rd letter is an "R" from wordsworth. 2nd word-5 letters.

Name his home town: 1 word, 4 letters. 4th letter is a "W" from wordsworth.

Name the city he settled in: 1 word, 10 letters. 2nd letter is an "A" from words worth.

Bonus...Name the abbey he attended as a boy: 1 word, 9 letters.

It sounds like Herman(n) Hesse.

Calw.

But he claims to have settled in Montagnola.

See
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laure...e-autobio.html

Oh, ok, there's no "A" in Wordsworth anyway -- so it must be an "O." But Hermann has two "N"s.

The abbey is Maulbronn according to the Nobel release.

Hermann Hesse
Calw

Montagnola

Maulbronn

Sorry - did not see previous post.

To wrap up my previous clue Thomas Page designed Westminster Bridge - which is the connection to Billy Wordsworth

Well wombat, I think that I win this time.

This one goes to 111op. I don't know what I was thinking...2 cock ups in one clue. Correct Hermann is spelled with 2 Ns, Still haven't had coffee yet and it was supposed to be an the 0 in wordsworth in the 7th position of Maulbronn. Anyway, over to you 111op

It doesn't matter since this was solvable by Google.

This is a brand name (5 letters, 4th = "a&quot, but it's also because of talks here that this country essentially gained its independence (country has 7 letters).

Happily over to you 111op - the trouble with getting an answer is you have to think of a clue

Well, wombat, just make the clues less challenging then.

Maybe it's a little too obscure -- I'll give a little hint. A pretty famous film from about forty years ago explored the struggle for control for this country.

Belarus?