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Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rűdh
On the contrary, I welcome adulatory plaudits from all quarters. The above are simply provided as examples of the sort of response we expect to receive.
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Dearie me! I would have expected that you of all people,
Squatter, might have appreciated a comedic aesthetic in which a response ran contrary to what you expected to receive. You have been too long absent to appreciate how we get and spend our amusement.
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Originally Posted by TSoAR
Impertinent suggestions of mutual ego-massaging, on the other hand, will be taken simply as evidence that genius is seldom appreciated. I might even have to write a poem about how cruel and unfeeling is a world in which the most profound work of one's heart is received merely as vulgar entertainment for the beguiling of an idle hour. That'll show you.
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A tome or two in heroic couplets? The Rape of a Frock! The Eminense gris might make even a Pope take note.