Areopagus Volume XLVII

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the forty seventh volume of the Areopagus. It was more or less one year ago that I decided to start a Twitter account and call it The Cultural Tutor. Now I'm here. What more can I do at this wholly unforeseen juncture than to offer my boundless gratitude to all of you, my Gentle Readers, and to Write of Passage, without whose continued support I could not bring my work to you and the so-called Twittersphere with such frequency and without cost.

It was ABBA who once sung thank you for the music. I suppose, to modify those famous words, I might say thank you for the readers. But, as John F. Kennedy once said:

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

And so, beyond gratitude, it is another instalment of the Areopagus I write for thee...