o pato, the ducky-do, do you go to the pictures? quem, quem, quem. i am variously and multiply reminded of a great misguided genius over the last 24 hours. i think that aurther seaton is probably the heroic figure of my adult life to date (along with albert angelo). i have been studying strategy for a couple of days which is an amusing, virtual diversion in a concrete, if stressful, world. tonight i went out for dinner with a number of the grandees of my work life, a nice bit of beef serve with a bitter herd seemed an adequate backgound for the tales of an historic past age which were brought forth for my anusment.