Thank you, Ime, for your very kind words and support. I appreciate it.

There's a very famous Brian Hook who is a British scholar of China, by the way, so Amazon is full of books by Brian Hook! Just not by me. But I am grateful for your encouragement, and I may soon have much more time to write.

I am glad that you enjoyed my serendipitous path from the Greek New Testament to a career in Classics. I followed what was meaningful to me, and I'm very grateful to have had a wonderful career doing just that. This piece does not express the gratitude, but it was not written for that purpose. It's a lament over the loss of something I love.

Thank you for reading and responding, my friend. I appreciate you.