I pick one item from a "gratitude list" Hiroko Bush posted last night:
"Humpty Dumpty was from a long ago and we now live in a sophisticated
age of Tesler and MRI and super well trained medical professionals."
Hal is stable, but he isn't waking up. Now we literature people tend to
be a bit on the slow side most of the time, but this shouldn't turn
into a regular Rip van Winkle...

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Dept. of English 
Centre for Security and Society
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Rempart St. 15
D-79098 Freiburg
Germany