too many of them. yet another reason for you to hang in there, like cooler does. Questor, too. Except now he's gone. Quoll (lordy, how can we forget poser arcana?) -- but he's gotten distant too. Ya'll got quiet. any idea how hard it is to get a good laugh and lurk when all the coolest folks are silent....

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)