lizzie:
All he has done for the past couple of weeks is just pop in and do these "drive-by" insults just for the hell of it. He wouldn't dare talk the way he does here at MAD.
Au contraire, mon ami. In point of fact, the things I have said have been poetry to the ears of many. At least that has been the general tenor of my private conversations with some who have followed this running exchange, including certain FARMS friends who, strangely enough, have not been able to perceive the same shame in the broad strokes of my “vulgar” posts as have more pious people like the righteous CK Salmon.
Not that they themselves would or could say such things. In the grand production of mortal life, we all must play our part. And though certainly some might be inclined to see:
More matter with less art.
Yet the judgment of the good Cordelia is true:
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
And even a fool, once bitten, can learn:
He's mad, that trusts in the tameness of a wolf …