So many back stories.
I'm sure I've told mine several times now. When I was looking for a username to join the old Crux group many years ago (before it became a Yahoo group) I had a bookshelf above my PC, and on it was the novel "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M Banks. That title is inspired by a portion of the TS Eliot poem "The Wastland" which I am also fond of:
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passes the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
"Look to Windward" is another Banks novel btw.
So now I am this forum's Primus Poenus
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