My latest surfacing corresponded with rec.arts.anime.creative
coming unjammed in a flood, thus leading to ravenous consumption of
the last half of SOS pretty much in one meal. (I recall suffering
a similar overdose way back when "Crossroads" first hit Usenet).

Thanks, Gryphon---I am now ruined for any kind of mundane
productive work for the rest of the week.

No, really, thank you.

-- chris

p.s. now I have to go back for a second read to pick up the foreshadowings
et al. missed the first time. Life is good.

--
Wielder of Avis Domestica Elastica; Warden of the Cubiculum Magikos.
"veni vidi nuclei jactare - I came, I saw, I dumped core".