The Google Analytics statistics suggest that my parting of ways with The Economist has led to a large drop in the number of visitors to my Residua website. Yes!

Addendum I (February 16, 2012)

There is no question about it any longer. Published by the mighty newspaper or not, my letters to the editor used to be widely read. Even though I must have written a couple of thousand letters over the years, though, there is little interest in my old letters. The drop in the number of visitors is thus here to stay. Again, this suits me fine. I have no interest in being read for my adroit rejoinders to The Economist. If I wish the number of readers to increase over time, it is for other reasons. Say, spiritual reasons. Like Jesus, I can only cast my net. If there are no fish to catch, so be it. Long live the fish!

Addendum II (September 7, 2015)

A bit more than three years later, I realize that the first addendum needs careful clarification. Why do I keep casting my net, and what do I mean by fish? Most important, I would like to get in touch with people I would gladly consider my equals. I assume that there are about a dozen of such people alive at this time, as well as any other time. In addition, I assume that at least a half of them have access to the World Wide Web at present. Therefore, the only reason I would like the number of visitors of the right kind to increase over time is that this would increase the likelihood of getting in touch with a few of my equals. But I have no interest in the increase of the number of visitors for any other reason. Such an increase would only be a nuisance, and a growing one at that. For, unlike Jesus, I do not wish to have any followers. Such fish I gladly leave to him and others like him.