After all

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all,?? Rebecca West once bluntly stated. Well, let me disagree with the classic on this occasion; four years since its inception, this `After All?? page remains a popular tribune not for some ??intersecting?? egodriven monologues of the writer and/or the readers, but for a conversation resplendent with lively verbal exchanges, guesses, puzzles, jokes and more.