hi barge,
nice attempt, but no cigar. it is your turn to bask, matey.
we're celebrating your contribution, not mine. 
one additional point. the fact of your independence on its own is worth a great deal. the point isn't always to be right. we are all often wrong. the point is to construct a coherent rationale and then to make the argument for it. which you do. religiously. there are tremendous shafts of insight to be had from almost any kind of idea journey.
doma also shows us the virtue of this every time he posts. i love both to be challenged and just to enjoy someone pursuing the construction of their own architecture. it doesn't matter if i agree with his hypothesis. i have learnt a tremendous amount from reading him while mostly disagreeing.
same time, back in wave world, i enjoy learning from the dig genius, eyeballing tkc's righteous quests, reading new wave's astonishingly diligent research, absorbing expat's wave-related refutations, skimming bluefang's treatises on trust etc.
it's all just a bit of a shame that the subject of everyone's efforts has become a sort of blob of inert jelly!
hope you enjoyed your boat trip.
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