Don't mock... well, just a little bit then
A comment turned up today on The Responsibility of the Author post. As I seem to be low on the milk of human kindness today (and the corner shop was clean out), I thought I would post about it here for those who will have missed it. I feel less bad about this than I might since a) it was anonymous and b) insulting to the person to whose comment it was replying.
This is the comment, and this the comment to which it was responding.
Leaving aside the definite sense I get that the Swift allusion has gone winging straight over Anonymous Commentator's head, I decided to unscreen it because, could there be any better illustration of someone galloping straight past the point on their doughty steed Preconceptions, while completely failing to read the words that were actually there?
How meta and self-reflexive is that?