Nichael wrote:

> But when I look at one of the gems on my shelf and feel like a
> complete dolt for having bought it in the first place, I can only
> ask myself "Where do you think the guy _you_ bought it from got
> it in the first place?"   The great circle rolls on...

GG:

A friend of mine - a non-list galoot with a rosewood plow (plough, jeff)
that I covet - has a theory he calls "the last idiot"

something is worth what the last idiot will pay for it - I am the last idiot
for a whole slew (skew?) of stuff at the bottom of the stairs.

Ed Minch