Acknowledgments Your correspondent (and humble*sequitrist) wishes to thank the following exemplary humans for invaluable contributions to e*sequiturs: the acronymous AMA, for la grammaire française parfaite; and John Waters (the graphic designer and educator, not the cineaste), for years of friendship, inspiration, insights and encouragement. Thanks also to people I don't know (alpha by organisation name): Sergey Brin and Larry Page for Google Books, making human thought manifest; Michael S. Hart for Project Gutenberg, ditto; Jimmmy Wales, for Wikipedia, the most important contribution in history to the documentation of and access to human knowledge; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, for YouTube, providing unprecedented audiovisual access to human creative activities and the history of popular culture worldwide, without the defilement of pornography. And to Brewster Kahle for all of the above through the Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance. The above achievements the more laudable given the ferocious, systematic opposition rained down upon them by litigious armies of flying takedown monkeys [2:42; G*d forbid the reder should have access to the actual film online], (a) intentional throttlers of social education, (b) inhibitors of creativity and (c) erasers of our common civilizational heritage (consigning their clients to cultural oblivion) in an era when access to knowledge is emerging as vital to humanity's survival. En réalité, your correspondent salutes these frantic anachronists, because they ensure that reders' e*sequiturs experience will be ever-changing, as replacements containing new and different content are posted. Thanks also to the creators, contributors and posters to the above-cited and other online sources, and for those who openly and generously (far more than deserved; I bow, humbled and overwhelmed by their kindness) have provided permission to directly link to or incorporate their content in fair use. Although e*sequiturs is at times critical (to say the least) of the good faith beliefs and ideas expressed on some cited sites, the reder is reminded that e*sequiturs is, in constrast to these sincere lives' works, mere satire, to be taken as noted in closing. Merci également aux poètes et aux muses (qui m'ont inspiré) et à vous, mes indulgents lecteurs. David St.-Lascaux (C. familiaris) * * * > Introit |