Sometimes they are just a dead end, somehow.
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When I am serious about something I want to be personal, I still write handwritten letters. Although my handwriting is, in the word of a former teacher, "a declaration of war against the schooling system of Western civilization".
I still have THREE VHS recorders in reserve, two of them packed and factory-sealed. No, I do not accept any offers. My gems of VHS recordings include my father performing live with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and some old TV films that cannot be had on DVd until today, and the complete series of Spenser which is not available with its ingenious German dub.