To Don Firth--

Thank you very much for your long personal remembrance. Now I get it. {There's hope??}

Maybe (he said, looking for the bright side) we're into a Toynbeean "withdrawal and return." Maybe the few who walked out of the coffee houses 'the day the music died' just decided to dig deeper and will someday be back. There is another side of the "Say, 'old man'" syndrome, and that is that if you live into the next generation, you suddenly discover that you actually know quite a bit. I guess the bottom line is that it's our own individual perception of whether we choose to be 'killed' or not.

CC