Thanks, Creatr - no, I don't know the song - for some reason I absolutely hate Abba and their music - don't even like one song ...strange

Thanks so much!

Me too - pardon the pun, but I'm writing this in real time - hot off the presses - exclusive to steemit. lol

Thank you

Thank you!

love that Woody quote, as for the heretofore and hereafter, I reserve judgment seeing as He will :)

thanks

Nope, I didn't, lol, but after years of battling cults and heresy hunting I can honestly say that Alexander Pope was right when he wrote. "Tis with our judgments as with our watches -- none run alike

Your coordinate thesis is interesting but what if we live in a mutiverse each universe with a different configuration of matter? - it's possible according to string theory, but maybe I'm just stringing

Yeah, quietly allowing stuff to happen and keeping a stiff upper lip...not always good

Thanks

Thank you!

You're welcome, Ginny

You sound like Hesse in his poem: The women of Ravenna kiss Rarely and deep, they kiss back. And all they know about life is that We all have to die

BTW, in correcting the errors I noticed a faulty clause - a misplaced modifier- 'who exactly resembles my wife' and it was in the wrong position and made it appear that the house resembled my wife...tsk

How embarrassing these careless errors, and I who corrected so many on students' papers - and depending on where they occur, they can seriously mar the tale and even skew the sense...but such is the price

What I liked about the picture is that the other trees are turned to ashes - the fire motif - better to burn out than to die out. I see what the Romans called lacrima rerum - lit. 'tears for things' -

No, and I like that about people, mind you, while acknowledging I'm a bit blinkered myself

Yes, and I suppose our novels become collective dreams

Exactly, Arthur - that's why I write so much about stone men, frozen men