In two months and a bit since opening comments, this blog received just eight, of which half were mere applause; and Blogger makes handling comments a bit of a nuisance. So I’ve turned commenting back off; and incorporated the four substantive comments as addenda to the original posts, which is what I do anyway when someone bothers to write to me.
Can you tell that I’m grouchy today?
Later: One friend takes the above as a complaint – he did not use the word whine – about your collective failure to provide more comments. Please set your minds at ease! I opened comments only because that same friend remarked cattily two or three times on their absence; on closing them I felt a duty to announce and explain the end of the experiment.