[continued from previous message]   
      
   > poem, apart from their shared use of a pile of newspapers to create   
   > different similes on different topics.   
   >   
   > I've never understood where your animosity toward NancyGene stems from.   
   > You have launched numerous attacks on her over the years, while she has   
   > largely abstained from the majority of your flame wars with other   
   > members.   
   >   
   > I have, however, always suspected that it stems from jealously on your   
   > part, as her posts are better written than yours, and reveal her to be   
   > better educated and more intelligent than yourself (in spite of your   
   > claims of having been a member of MENSA).   
   >   
   > I think that this latest attack was provoked by my having paid a   
   > well-deserved compliment to one of her poems -- as you have always been   
   > jealous of any poet whose work I have praised (Jim Senetto, for   
   > example).   
   >   
   > In conclusion, I would like to stress the fact that NancyGene's poem is   
   > entirely an original work, and that her opening line is one of the best   
   > that I have ever come across.  I prefer it to Mr. Creeley's because it   
   > strikes me as being universally applicable, whereas Mr. Creeley's   
   > (assuming I am reading correctly in its out-of-context form) deals with   
   > cases of isolation and clinical depression which fewer individuals have   
   > experienced.   
   >   
   > --   
      
   Nobody expected you to admit Nancy Gene is a second hander troll,   
   Pendragon.   
      
   And so it goes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)