If I was so smart, I would not be going to the

Persian Gulf next week.


Dear Dr. Au fait,

Dr. Au fait. Au fait, Ph.D. Au fait, O.P.

I like O.P. best: Original Person/Poster. Ordinary Person.

Except *you* are not an ordinary person, never, nada. You didn't come out of the Cosmic Egg that way.

You came out bright and fully cooked and ready to fly away and old and used to the game. Done this, said that. But still interested. Still curious. Funny mind. Brilliant mind. Laser wit.

I will pray hard for you, Dr. Au fait, for your protection and safekeeping, for you coming home again soon, ready to check our tabula mensa... or was that

tabula rasa?




Dr. Au fait. most brilliant of all. Sgt. Au fait. O.P.: fait. fate.