Thanks, Richard.

I apologize ~ to the Countess and to everyone else ~ for my rudeness, but I felt a need to 'fess up to my morbid fascination with a truly demented conversation, and undoubtedly went too far in spilling my guts about the thoughts that have unavoidably passed through my mind while indulging myself here.

I meant to use the phrase "like a moth to a flame" early in my previous post to describe my compusion to keep coming back here to track the latest developments, but forgot to do so. So now I've said it. I'm not proud of my inability to ignore this nonsense and just virtually walk away.

I missed the bit explaining "f*lk," will go back and re-read.

The ballad from which the name comes is undoubtedly in the DT, I assume. I'll check that out, too. I'm sure that someone is pleased that I have betrayed my own ignorance about that.