Methuzela, 94

I am an articulate, lively, witty, semi-intellectual all-out liberal; an opinion researcher, classical musician (harpsichord and piano), skeptical of this medium but who knows......

I am chronologically 78, which is meaningless because it is what's between the ears that counts. My late wife was 17 years younger than I and we had an incredibly successful 30-year marriage.

I am attracted to younger women because we can learn so much from one another. Too, the societal consequences are amusing.

Some distance behind music is people watching, a discipline from which I made a modest living conducting more than 1,000 focus groups and many surveys of diverse populations ranging from plumbers to Ivy League faculty members, (The former was more interesting and far less self-centered).

I have two sons, each of whom is Jeckyl or Hyde, depending on the weather; a grandson who is a piano prodigy studying in Europe; and a tendency toward the improper use of semi-colons.

It would be most gratifying to find a woman who is literate,witty, relatively slender, and filthy rich. I would be quite satisfied to sacrifice the last criterion for the first three.

My heroes are J.S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Ted Williams, and Tarzan of The Apes.

I am uncertain about whether I am physically attractive, although I was borderline handsome when I was younger and women still look at me furtively in the supermaket. As a matter of fact, I was stalked around the veggie department a few weeks ago by a rather attractive woman who, I assume, was somewhat sight impaired. I have uploaded a photo, but it disappears for reasons unknown to me. If it's not there, I'll email one to those of you who are foolish enough to be attracted to my self description.

My real name is Bob , but I hesitate to supply my family name because you might be dangerous or a she-male or my next door neighbor.

Purpose: true friendship, talk, laughter, sharing all things chocolate, and then......who kno