@ForgotHowIGotMyName you were right, Verso doesn't have an original thought in his head, now he's stealing whole sentences from a post that I wrote days ago and trying to use it against me instead of coming up with anything of his own. And it doesn't even work because he didn't poke holes in anything!
"Because if I start winning the admiration of the kind of people who enjoy middlebrow chaff" -- yes, at the moment you just win the approval of... Radis Noir, and... CarlisleBaz, and... so on. Really tremendous company. You'll be best friends with manic Ken by next week too, professing your approval of his readings of Morrissey lyrics (which in your mind will be "an expression of Rifke's creative failure" or something). At least you know you haven't
completely lost the plot because you haven't won the approval of someone who had the
audacity to go on a Harry Potter walking tour, one of the most popular literary series of the 21st century. Way to go Verso
, teenage-level elitist snobbery coming a 35 year old man, the sort of thing you'd expect to see along with "oh, you like that band whose t-shirt you're wearing? Name three of their songs". That line of thinking made us feel better about ourselves when we were 15 years old - that our taste was
so unique and better than other people's - why grow up and move on from it, right? You manchild.