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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6409038, member: 110504&quot;](For the Public Benefit: ) Troll Redux!&nbsp; Might return the favor.</p><p>May the record show that, when I first joined this forum, and found that Seth had posted threads on several subjects with which I had been engaged for a decade or more (estending to academic history), I wrote him, in a &#039;Conversation,&#039; sincerely and profusely congratulating him on his evident erudition.&nbsp; Now, I&#039;m thinking that in his case, that was a huge strategic mistake.&nbsp; He proceeded to mistake the appreciation of one intelligent, engaged collector for another, as a blank check to assume what he seemed to have found most comforting to himself: my effectively total ignorance.</p><p>It takes intelligence to appreciate intelligence.&nbsp; Now I wonder whether the principle consistently holds....</p><p>And, Um, I&#039;m an English major (with a former major in Philosophy).&nbsp; Who routinely blew people (including professors) out of the room at graduate level.&nbsp; His repeated accusations of &#039;gibberish&#039; are highly reminiscent of the comparable response of a recent, duly-esteemed head of state to his first attempt to read the Constitution.</p><p>...On a lamentably subjective level, he seemson the level of pathology, to endlessly insist on being &#039;the expert in the room.&#039;&nbsp; I&#039;d much prefer aspiring to being &#039;the <i>grownup</i> in the room.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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