more money going to the arts and less to expensive toilets at the pentagon or, like, failed mars expeditions. have you-- did you have any idea what you were getting into? did you know that it was going to be a decade-long battle, or did you think you'd be in and out of this fairly quickly, take your $6,000 and go home? i really didn't have-- i knew that getting involved in a lawsuit against the federal government was going to be involved, but i had no idea that it was going to go on for as long, that it would also implicate other people-- for example, the places that would present me would get death threats and lose funding and people would lose their jobs-- and that it would go on for ten years. i didn't know what i was getting myself into. in the course of those ten years, in addition to having "a member of the n.e.a. four" attached to your name in every reference, you won a couple of important court battles and, in fact, did get your grant. was that part of a settlement? in 1993, the clinton administration did settle on the part of our lawsuit that was about our grants. they gave us our g