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A suitably wry autoapotheosis with terminal bathos for your birthday, Patrick - on which cordial congratulations from one of your younger admirers. The effect reminds me of Eastern European poetry of the postwar period - like Günter Kunert's ALS UNNÖTIGEN LUXUS herzustellen verbot, was die Leute Lampen nennen, König Tharsos von Xantos, der von Geburt Blinde (Günter Kunert, GDR 1963, who emigrated to the FRG shortly afterwards) AS UNNECESSARY LUXURY he forbade the production of what people called lamps, king Tharsos of Xantos, who from birth was blind. best Martin Patrick Mc Manus wrote: >GREAT > > -- The art of being civilized is the art of learning to read between the lies. - Kenneth Rexroth