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Well, if you "don't see it" you obviously have a problem with logical thinking or something or are, as I say, too prejudiced against me to start with to think clearly.
My first mention of Wagner's "Ring" was not confrontational or competitive. That is clear and undeniable.
Obviously, though, it got this guy's back up because ANY mention of anything that implies familiarity with so-called "elite culture" - particularly when it's ME that's doing the mentioning - gets his back up. He becomes desperate to prove - although he doesn't have even the flimsiest grounds on which to prove it, as he knows little or nothing about me and there is no demonstrable fallacy in anything I have said - that I'm "just pretending", that nobody REALLY possesses any culture or knowledge about anything except HIM.
That's the way it is, sorry.
But contrary to my previous post, maybe you're right, maybe it's only my anger and disgust that are prompting me to post here and it would be better (for myself most of all) if I didn't.
This has happened so many times before in the course of my "activity" in the Cracky "community". I try to raise the level of discussion a little and am immediately spewed over from a dozen directions by every imaginable spirit of envy and furious offended vanity.
CH, as I've said, is indeed finished. It is now a permanent standing insult to Cracky rather than the hommage Jeff intended it to be.
I think that, rather than bother you, it is better that I make this the finish of my "activity" as well.
Linger but a moment, Dolores!! I come, I come!! Together we shall fly, like Siegmund and Sieglinde, out of "des Feindes Haus" into the glorious, terrible valley of the burgeoning springtime world!! The embrace which you so stubbornly and humbly sued for shall at last be thine!!!