Chapter 7 (and a half:-) Mr. Hopeful, as everyone now knows, was the stage name of a fifteen-year-old musical illiterate from South Georgia . His musical career was short (see Ch.13b) but that was...

Hopeful(ly), as the character's creator, I may be allowed to tell his story in a few short posts of what Peter Morris called 'situational irony' Fear not "for 'tis a moral tale, and one // that of...

Jari, Benjamin, thank you. I never thought of looking at these things sideways! I visited the sites and now I have a stiff neck. It's a pity nobody local in my age group has a computer. I wouldn't...

Forgive a senior citizen's curiosity, but I have noticed several correspondents use odd punctuation groups in their messages - like a colon followed by a hyphen followed by a left or right bracket....

Hi, everybody. Thanks for the replies. Sorry about the delay (choral weekend in the mountains, lousy weather, great food). All the points in my original message have been discussed in threads going...