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I'm glad that's true :) All: I'm glad that's true :) All the best to you.

Thanks: I appreciate your sentiment. I was having a bad night remembering the last few years and I wasn't feeling well. I made this and now I feel better.  Thanks for reading. 

Kaleidoscopic Viewing: Dream sequence internal like; storm fast approaching calm vistas - an awe of images - well painted with a sharp eye-quill. ~S

Thank you.  At least, as a: Thank you.  At least, as a bystander, I have had the satisfaction of hearing a nobel laureate recommend Mary Shelley as an ethicist in her fiction; and of seeing the "rehabilitation" of Vivienne, which started, in a very dramatic way, in 1991 (the monolythic interpretation that she was a shrew, and nothing more than that, has been ameliorated; and many of her behaviors, misinterpreted before, are receiving the benefit of objective, and calm, inquiry). 

I re-read this again, about: I re-read this again, about five months after my first reading, and it seems even now more poignant, and more disturbing (the disturbance being how you, and many other students including myself, have been treated by academics).  At my college, two very daunting projects were required, one in the sophomore year, one in the senior year (this one being the dreaded "senior thesis" which, once written, had to be deposited in the college library for peer review from one's classmades in the "senior seminar; this process was required to obtain the degree, and the peer review could be brutal).  The sophomore project, in my major, was to write at least one hundred index cards containing bibliographical material on at least fifty---if memory serves correctly---monographs, articles, or reviews of a certain historical subject.  My choice was critical reactions to the publication of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, from 1818 to about 1950; with the majority being taken from the period of 1818-1851.  Mary Shelley was not well thought of at my college (and as recently as 2001, at a private reunion luncheon put on by the then Chairman of the Department, that disapproval was still quite evident), and I was, more than one, reprimanded during that spring of 1978 for choosing that particular subject for my collection of cards.  I did have the satisfaction of hearing an interview, back in 2019, with a Nobel prize laureate in the field of Genetics, who stated that Frankenstein should be required reading for all freshman science majors, and that they should be required to write and submit an essay discussing the ethical implications of the novel.  So that was a vindication, of sorts, although at my alma mater, Mary Shelley is still not accorded the respect she so richly deserves. * I was actually also reprimanded, openly, in a class on the poetry of T.S. Eliot, for raising a question the instructor believed was inappropriate.  The class was given only once every three years.  Admission was by invitation only, and no freshman was permitted to participate.  I took the class in the first quarter of my Junior year.  My question, which seemed very appropriate to me, was to ask about the influence of the poet's first wife, Vivienne, upon his poems, and as a presence in the poems (she is all over them up until her death in 1942).  The instructor literally slammed his pen down on the table, became very red in the face, and, in a very unrestrained "outdoor" voice, hollered at me to "shut up."  My classmates all seemed very embarrassed by this exchange; and when I attempted to point out that this question was as deserving of fair inquiry as any other question about the poetry might be, I was again ordered to "shut up," and to never again raise a question about Vivienne Eliot in that class again.  Later, when the final grades were assessed, the instructor told me that  while I had earned an "A" for my overall participation, he did not feel that I deserved it, but he had no choice but to give it. * I suspect this kind of thing, including unfounded accusations of plagiarism or of "copying" on exams, goes on a lot more frequently than most people think, or even notice.  Universities and colleges are supposed to be places of free inquiry; but this free inquiry seems, more realistically, to be like Soviet freedoms:  some people are more free than others; and most of them are not free at all.  To have been reminded, in 2001 (twenty-one years after graduation) of a sophomore choice in a single glass, and to again be berated for that choice, indicated to me that such perceived "infractions" against the academic establishment are never, ever, fully forgiven or expunged.  And that is a terrible, and terrifying, flaw in the so-called "higher education" system.  I am very sorry you had to experience some of this; and I think all such experiences like this---yours, mine, and all the others of which we do not know---could be handled in a much more civil way.  

Great Ending: . A image for the absolutely unretrievable. Fine lines on the art of loss. "...slow soaring skies and/Low roaring ocean" - bravo line.  . Tetra Nova finalfan XIV? Woke! 

Emotion Dense: . Felt it inside an exquisite vocabulary selection. Bravo each image "one more/chance to press their/weight to  your ears..." Marvelous word art! - Encore! Stella    .