>>9
No, thank YOU.
I have absolutely no hesitation in stating that your post also surely counts among the most cogent and well-written of all the posts by those persons speaking up in defence of Alex on Bounceme who happen also to be Alex.
Just to prove that I'm even more Alex than you are, though, I'll add that, when I look at Crackyhouse these days and then look at the Facebooks of one or two young women who used to regularly (well, one fairly regularly, the other hardly ever but she's SO lovely) grace the place with their presence, I find myself reciting to myself, with infinite melancholy (as one does) the beautiful lines of Hugo von Hoffmansthal:
Manche freilich müssen drunten sterben
wo die schweren Ruder der Schiffe streifen,
andere wohnen bei dem Steuer droben,
kennen Vogelflug und die Länder der Sterne.
Manche liegen mit immer schweren Gliedern
bei den Wurzeln des verworrenen Lebens,
anderen sind die Stühle gerichtet
bei den Sibyllen, den Königinnen,
und da sitzen sie wie zu Hause,
leichten Hauptes und leichter Hände.