Man, you get to the verge of an important scene, and you have a pile of freelance to get through, and what happens?  Your video card fries out.  (For the second time.)  And you spend the week working on three different borrowed computers at half speed while the computer manufacturer processes your vituperative feedback e-mail.  And you think to yourself: 18th century scholars didn’t have these problems.

To make up for the delay, I’ll try to put up another batch of notes this weekend, since I don’t need my own computer to look up wacky historical minutiae.  Thank you all for your patience.

In the meantime though, hey look!  You can get a Spinoza patch! There’s only a few left.