Man, I wish I had decided to emerge from my self-imposed isolation a week earlier, because these two threads have been awesome.

(That's not sarcasm, by the way. I love arguing and literary criticism so much, you guys, you don't even know.)

>B) She might have been lying. She does that sometimes. ...
>Quite a lot, actually, when she's trying to accomplish something that
>she doesn't feel she has time or mental bandwidth to explain to the
>muggles.

In all fairness, Ben... I suggested this as a possibility some time ago, and you had some deeply uncharitable things to say about my views of women if I thought she was being manipulative in this instance.

-Merc
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