Friends and Fans -
I have been unable to lament this last eighteen months or so. The reason? I have been in hospital (or, as our German allies say "Das Krankenhaus." With your leave I will digress for a moment to point out that IMHO, 'Krankenhaus" conveys the nature of the building, and it's purpose, more accurately than "hospital." I mean, who would voluntarily go to a "hospital" unless they were krankened, afflicted with krankenitis, or temporary playing host to the life-threatening kranken virus?)
Where was I? Yes, in das krankenhaus, struck down by a debilitating attack of non-melancholic merrimentosis, (common name cheerfulness.) But be sure, be very sure, I am now convalescing and, as one more famous than I said . . .
"I'LL BE BACK!"
and every bit as gloomy as usual.
