perhaps I'll add the Notebooks to my summer reading list to satisfy "Anonymous." I'm not embarrassed, though, for this--or any--questioning I do, and I find the challenge to--the shutting down (by pre-empting) of--questioning to be an eminently conservative gesture.

And so in the spirit of avoiding conserving, I'll even avoid trying "not to be openly impressed..." I'll leave myself open to impression(ability), okay?