Keith- Two small points.
Point the first.) My "acquaintance" as stated, is with the works of "the Dirty Digger", as he is lovingly called in Lord Gnome's satirical organ, "Private Eye" (out of London).
Point the second) My maternal grandfather
was a freight and passenger conductor for the New York Central, of blessed memory. Conductors were conmmonly called "brains" in the way-old days, and it's in honour of his blessed memory that I use tbe moniker.
Remembed, rhetoric is not sophistry, and in my feeble imitations of Pericles and Cato and Demosthenes, I of little Latin and, still plead sophia.
less Greek,