Have carefully reread Ebbie's list of "Dichotomies" above. Can still "see" {with or without *g} nothing to like or admire, or even to make allowance for in respect of other supposed virtues, in this funereal parade of obstinacy, perverseness, wilfulness, and entire unempathetic bloody insensitivity...

But no doubt I shall be told, Oh well, you just have to know the fellah.

As my cousin Louis's erstwhile colleague Mr Goldwyn was famous for enjoining -

Include me out.

~M~