<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Nov 19, 2016, at 2:37 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">Please read your own post. You used no discretion whatsoever in hurling ugly words at Spike when you simply did not know what you were talking about. He owed you no response at all; yet he refrained from reaming you out, which was richly deserved.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">Clearly you are not here to make friends, but still, a little restraint and a more gentlemanly demeanor would suit members of this list who seem to want to use posts for personal attacks.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">You are scoring no points with anyone.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>I don't want to pile on Will S. here, though I'd like to say that Spike is usually restrained and seems to think the best of each person here. I believe that's a good thing in a moderator.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, I think both Orwell's novel and Aldous Huxley's _Brave New World_ have much to say to people living now. As do Kafka's _The Trial_ and many others. I think it's unfortunate that these works, if they're read at all, tend to be read at the high school level by folks who have mostly see reading them as a chore to get a grade.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>