....posts, please, for which I am willing to pay up to a dollar, American.

I don't have the energy to plow through it all.

Any really interesting information?

I must say, a week without "rec.boats" is like...

Well, hell, wasn't it Johnson who wrote:

A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject;
must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to
the fancy with greater dignity.

A difficult task indeed for this place.



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