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Ben,

The posts as archived are 'read only' and do not permit comment. How would you suggest readers 'quote' a post and segregate the various discussions? I've just begun a new thread in the First Three Months Forum to illustrate one possibility.

That's the best way in my opinion. Go to the thread you want to discuss, copy the link/url for that thread and paste it into your new thread.

An alternative that would also work is to copy/paste the relevant text from the original post and paste it into new "quote" tags. That would look something like this:

[quote="Yoda"]...put quoted text here...[/quote]

or if you want to get fancy, include the id of the post being quoted in the quote and it will link the quote to the other thread...

[quote="Yoda";56179]...put quoted text here...[/quote]

Either way, it should end up looking something like this:

A young piano prodigy was brought to Beethoven for his opinion. Said the great man: "The boy must play a long time yet before he realizes he cannot playat all."

The Golfing Machine is an odyssey whose rigors will test all who attempt it. Nevertheless, it is a journey that will, like the "pearl of great price," ultimately yield its own reward. Remember the story of the five blind men, each holding different parts of an elephant? Each did his best to describe the animal as pictured in his own mind. One "saw" only the dangling trunk. Another "saw" only the curved, smooth, sharp ivory of the tusks. Just as ardently, the remaining blind men "saw" and described the swishing tail, the flapping ears, and the gigantic legs.

Homer saw the whole elephant. It took him forty years to figure it out and get it down on paper. So, be patient: Today a tusk, tomorrow a tail, next month a trunk. Keep working, and one day you will not only "see" it, you will own it.