Doug Ewell wrote:

>> I don't find the exchange you quoted "mean-spirited" whatsoever; I'd
>> call it "refreshingly frank".

> I don't wish to belabor this, but I didn't quote any exchange at all,
> specifically not the one Jelks prepended to my message.

Heh. I see now from the web archive that the ostensibly quoted post came
right *after* yours, so I suppose it would have indeed been eerily prescient
of you to be able to quote it before the fact. :) That's what I get for not
paying close attention while replying to the "Digest" version of Qalam. Mea
culpa.


/Jelks