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Right, everyone just take a chill pill.
MG - now you know for the future where to post this sort of thing, so let's not worry 'bout it now.
I'm reading from 'An Anthology of Romantic Poems', 'Literature and Gender', 'Romantic Writings' and lots of other things at the mo'. As novels go, I've recently been reading some Russians, like Turgenev and Tolstoy. Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' for example blew me away - even today it is so powerful - I can't imagine the affect it had on contemporaries!
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Max, without commenting on the temperence of her response, you should realize that various people on this board have been pick-pick-picking away at her ever since she mentioned her modeling. And you also have to realize that her inital post was a productive one intended to be helpful and healing, and that although your point was quite well-taken, it did take the focus off the important thing she was saying.
It is gratifying to here you say, quite correctly, that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. But it is a bit curiously selective of you to say so now, having said nothing of the sort when f-bombs have been lobbed in mid-February.
Edit: b-youth, you and I were posting simultaneously. I am very much agree with and admire what you said and, had I seen it, might well have not posted my own.
Max, may I suggest "Hate the sin but love the sinner"? One can object to a post ("violence") without attacking the poster ("incompetent").
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Hence, this is, in a manner of speaking (writing), an INFORMATION thread.
ModGod, it is information, but perhaps not what the Board (set up originally by Anu) intended. Here's what the front page says:
Information & Announcements
Check this forum for latest developments about A.Word.A.Day
Miscellany
Odds and ends. This is the place for everything else. E.g. What is your favorite word? Did you coin a word? Share it here.
I think you know I'm not being critical, just trying to help you out. I suspect Max was too. I'm sorry you're upset.
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> Why don't y'all get some perspective?
MG - I think you are in danger of not taking your own advice. How about taking a break and coming back when you've had sometime to cool off? Please.
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I'm sorry, folks. But when you start a precedent of swearing, you have to expect it will be followed. And when you don't object to harsh language, it does seem a bit odd to get all hot and bothered about the placement of a string.
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