Caveat Lecteur

"May it please heaven that the reader, emboldened, and become momentarily as fierce as what [s/he] reads, find without loss of bearings a wild and abrupt way across the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-filled [posts]. For unless [s/he] bring to [the] reading a rigorous logic and mental application at least tough enough to balance . . . distrust, the deadly issues of this [blog] will lap up [one's] soul as water does sugar. It would not be good for everyone to read the [posts] that follow; only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger. So, timid soul, before further penetration of such unchartered steppes, retrace your steps, do not advance."

With sincerest apolgies to the good Count . . .