i do find people hard to read and the world is so mysterious i do misapprehend betimes. i'm glad to hear the curtis write back and was appreciative and not dismissive of me. i do have this curse of feeling trifling and trifled with by people and the world, when in fact people and the world may actually affirm me more often than not. as phaedrus says, things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. this applies so well to the operations of obomba.