Smackdowns for your delight and edification

[shweta_narayan]

Both via cynthia1960:

An open letter from yuki_onna and one from Hal Duncan in response to John C Wright and others who have been letting their assholes show.

My favourite line from yuki_onna:
It's a pretty simple equation, really. Limited lifespan divided by number of books it's possible to consume due to vagaries of money and mortality equals I am not buying your books if

Comments

[sartorias]

I just love Duncan's screed.

[shweta_narayan]

I very much like what I've read so far, but 5400 words of low-contrast text is more than my eyes can manage in one go.

[shweta_narayan]

Actually it's not low-contrast so much as the patterned background that's making my eyes cross. I've actually copy/pasted his response into another window in order to be able to read it.

[zwol]

I had the same problem. View -> Page Style -> No Style is my friend.

[_stranger_here]

I tried to formulate a response to that guy and could only come up with two words, so I'm very glad that Cat and Hal made the effort.

[shweta_narayan]

I think perhaps I came up with the same two words :)

[kirizal]

At least you had words. I think all I managed was a strangled cry of horror and rage.

[shweta_narayan]

oh these two words *are* my cry of rage.

[cucumberseed]

Both things of beauty.

[shweta_narayan]

Poor Elmo didn't. This is another reason why these people should stop it :)

[la_marquise_de_]

Just to say thank you for the links and for the lovely Dumas comparison. (I love Dumas, for all his flaws, with a love that goes back to my teens.) The icon here is from an early copy of La Dame de Monsoreau.

[shweta_narayan]

Er... you're very welcome, and I'm rather fond of Dumas myself, but my line was really something of a riff off Brust explaining "The Phoenix Guards". As far as I remember he said something like "Like Dickens, Dumas was paid by the word. Dumas had more fun with it."