Hi Ron ! Thought I'd better get in my word before I get fined tomorrow midday onwards: no loitering, "embrassades et les poignées de main à la française", trysts and hence no adulterous appointments (for "all" husbands will be forcibly confined to their own bed-rooms); will the rate of incestuous relationships increase (I wonder). According to the President: "A war on the pox...pardon: coronavirus!" Curious, no leader or government has banned "sexual contact"; only kissing and shaking hands! Perhaps, it's alright to copulate so long as one does not "kiss" and has his or her hands tied behind their backs during the act of making love! /Your image of the "dip" in the proverbial river reminds me of Marlowe in "Shakespeare in Love" when the Bard of Avon's disguised lover ("all" women's roles were played by men at the Old Vic) by the tavern-keeper: "Have you already dipped your wick?" / On the question of the FUTURE, how is it (I ask myself) Asians have always been interested in consulting astrologers and seers. Little wonder the "Yi Jing, the Canon of Change" remains the first book (>3000 years) carved into stone. There was a Tamil-speaking Malabari in Singapore in the sixties who was consulted by Lee Kuan Yew and his cabinet (I have it on good worth) and all the intellectuals alike: He could reveal anyone's past and future in detail, right from birth to death! Etonnant, non?

I can see it was first written in 2005 and then probably revised in 2012. Certainly apropos for today. As it will probably be apropos in the future. Time is about a river flowing by. If we don't get wet today dipping in it, we can never dip in to the same place again.

Ron