siblings, n. Not the family you choose, but the family that indulges in blackmail, knowing all your dirty secrets. Cain and Abel are not so much a meditation on sacrifice and humility as a foretelling of most sibling relationships that would follow them.
There is a dusty, dusty saying that decries the inability to simultaneously exist with and entirely avoid the subject of our desires. Personally, I'd like to take this opportunity to reuse it for other matters. Namely, the following:
"Siblings -- can't live with them, can't find enough lye to properly dispose of all the bodies."
That said, I'm sharing the following as proof that someone related to me should be spending a little less time playing around in the computer lab, and a little more time working on that dissertation. Unfortunately, even if I were to attempt to leverage said evidence by presenting it to our shared parentage, I suspect I'd get less sympathy than I may hope. So I'll have to simply put this up where it reminds me that revenge is sweet, sweet, sweet:
(Entirely as an aside, if someone's skilled enough in knitting to whip one of these together, or someone knows where I could buy one? I will pay for your time. Contact me here.)