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But Mark, an argument with no audience is like a plate of porridge without
salt.
Perhaps you're right, however, and this has gone on long enough. Jeffrey's
responses are too repetitious and monotonal properly to engage with. A
decent flyting demands a worthy antagonist.
Patrick raised elsewhere on this thread the resonant name of Kent Johnson.
Now Kent ... I'm reminded of one of the more enjoyable discussions I was
involved with, when Kent revealed that he was a sincere proponent of the
Earl of Oxford as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
Boy, *that was fun, and the only time I remember Kent actually withdrawing
from an online argument.
Somehow, this calls to my mind the words spoken by Senator Lloyd Bentsen to
Dan Quayle in a vice-presidential debate Way Back When:
Bentsen: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy,
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
On that cheerful note, I will at last withdraw, and comfort myself by
rereading Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe", on authors whose names begin with S.
Robin (list fascist)
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