LAST EDITED ON Dec-19-06 AT 04:02 AM (EST)
Sorry. I tried.Actually, I think you're kind of missing the point?
But it's clear from your vehemence that I'm not going to be able to explain it to you, so fuck it.
Also, please feel free to choke on my cock for that snide little aside about the quality of my villains. Not so much because it questions the quality of my villains as because it's so fucking snide. I try not to take it personally when I get panned for legitimate, or at least subjectively legitimate, dramatic or technical reasons, and in a forthright, non-rancorous manner, but you wrecked any progress you might've made in that regard by adding that little dab of vitriol out of the side of your mouth, as it were.
All right, now that I've had a chance to calm down a little...
I regret this very much. See - you might have a point. It might even be worth discussing. Except that the way you present yourself makes it plain that you're just trying to start a fight, and, it being after 3 AM on a cold December night in darkest Maine, I find myself responding accordingly. The topic at hand is, if you couldn't guess, one of intense personal significance to me, and to have it used as a hook for some pretentious clown to hang flamebait on just riles me up and makes me uncivil. And yet, there might be a good conversation to be had in there someplace... pity we'll probably never know.
And that's the regrettable part. I can tell by the way you approached your opening that, if I were to try and actually conduct a dialogue on this subject, you'd just keep on in the same vein, and all I would end up doing is shouting at the wall. You raise a potentially interesting point, yet do it in such a way that there's clearly no percentage in trying to explore it.
Either way, you've given me something to think about. It's a shame you did so in such a way that I won't be able to think about it without feeling like someone shit in my hat.
Anyway, I'm off to bed. No doubt I'll spent some time reflecting on these matters that I was originally going to spend asleep. And trying not to give too much weight to the idea that that's what you were after in the first place.
If you want to try discussing it like an adult sometime, I'm always around, but you'll forgive me if, based on prior performance, I'm not overly sanguine about the prospects right now.
--G.
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