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Congratulations, Swordfished! You actually did it, sticking around. It takes guts to expose yourself like that, akin to running naked into a church service where you show all the real you. The analogy to bot flies may not fit perfectly but they buzz all around just like librarians. Usually the scent of death attracts more than one.

Now, I apologize for a heavy bias. I have always had a problem with librarians. Perhaps it was when I was shushed to my huge embarrassment, and reduced to a whisper. It caused me to hate Dewey Decimals as much as paying late fees.

Our librarian wouldn't help me find my favorites back in school, like Bobby Burns. He wrote a wonderful poem, "Ode to a Louse..." You really should read the whole poem but the last stanza (the poem, not the Nissan car...)is all I pose.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad lea'es us,
An ev'n devotion!

You are really a great help and one fine sounding board for us. I realize you really do not comprehend what it is all about but, hey, it's you.

Oh yes, I will answer your comments if you really wish, but it looks like O.B.E., overtaken by events.