url: 01-may1.html name: The Orphanage clue: REFORMATION DAY, 2001 Dear Mr. Hance: Delighted that you have returned home safely from your odyssey. Not everyone lives to tell of their adventures. Speaking of which, we assume that you will be pleased to learn that an old friend of yours will probably return within the next 10 to 14 days, inclusive. The brother who signs "You bud" has undergone a series of rather harrowing assignments but is substantially intact. He has spoken of you often. It seems that a message, from a familiar location, will reach you in approximately the parameters set forth above. (You may find this address novel to your log. Do not be apprehensive. It is authorized. Indeed, if one were to have a continuous loop video camera trained upon this bank of terminals, nothing would be learned by The Opposition--whom we know you NOT to be. We mention that solely to assure you as to this electronic location. In your society, anyone can be rented if the price be sufficient. A dull, colorless person is simply selected and given a message which he/she/they can key in within 24 hours of reception. As you can tell, it has passed through translation and one or two other filters.) Now to the gist: Kudos to Jessica. A woman after our own heart. She and Repubgirl verge on the remarkable, especially in light of contemporary conditions. Her "spreadsheet" is nearly as much as anyone could desire. Please recall our suggestions apropos thereto (the spreadsheet) as per February 14--2001. [Message to Repubgirl.] It is also suggested that more attention might be paid to the text of St. Matthew 13:13, which is itself a paraphrase of Jeremiah 5:21. Both texts are significant. Both would aid in interpreting the spreadsheet. Both ladies are requested to use the Gestalt which the One who made us all specifically entrusted to women. It will do the deed more rapidly than Euclid, although that tired horse would, eventually, plod through the spreadsheet. Only grace will bring you Home but an adequate of amount of what one school of polemics calls Right Reason will explain what you currently believe to be a puzzle. It is that. It also entails events that have been set in motion but will not see fruition during the temporal lifetimes of those currently communicating with you. If locally supplied information can be trusted, you are about to embark upon a new endeavor in the vocational world. May it be happy and prosperous for you. The situation here is fluid has been so for several months. No relief is currently on the horizon and thus it may be this time next year before you receive another authorized communication unless it is transmitted by "you bud." May the triune God bless and keep you. --Best Regards and continuing Esteem, THE ORPHANAGE