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[ckaratnytsky]

     Peaceful Greg, who, after the crystalline observation that "the truth 
     is difficult to explain" to a five-year-old, not to mention anyone 
     else, claims :
     
     >I'm not educated 
     
     Balderdash, sez I.  A learned soul has uncloaked himself with a wise 
     and heartfelt post.  
     
     I read a bunch of books at a time, too.  Like now:  I continue on my 
     beloved and endless circumnavigation with the mad Quixote; I ruminate 
     with Rumi; I do a steely twitch with Whiteout; I howl, billow, and wag 
      with Lawrence; I swing, slowly, with Vineland...
     
     As most of these folks know, I wasn't able to get through Gravity's 
     Rainbow until I joined the list.  Tried for a decade, stopped, failed, 
     tried again, stopped again.  Richard Romeo, il miglior discepolo, found 
     me languishing in the cyber-wasteland, vainly contemplating the great 
     unrealized motherquest with a bunch of calcified librarians.  Now, I'm 
     thinking I must be home...
     
     The collective erudition and insight displayed here, as well as the 
     overall tetchy-ness, crankiness, and mysterious sexy-ness, is often 
     staggering.  Don't let it get to you.  (It gets to me all the time.)  
     Test us again.
     
     (Re)peace(ed), repast, ripost(e),
     
     Chris