Thank you for your kind encouragement -- it means a great deal to me. "Lapidary enthusiasm" is a great phrase! I find the depth and breadth of your scholarly pursuits inspiring, but even more so the passion, enthusiasm, insight, and discernment you bring to all of them. Life! Its abundant presence and expression in you and through you is a joy to encounter.

And on top of that, you sent me music I didn't know I needed.

Ahh -- am I reading you right? You are finding you did need it? I admit to having been super curious what you would make of it all, especially the Tull, music so many people either dislike or simply don't respond to but which has been for me a lifelong source of pleasure and illumination.