Friday, May 6, 2022

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I vaguely remember that you sent a rather lengthy speech about Unitarians, about how many of the classic authors of English literature in the 19th century were actually Unitarians, or at least started that way, and, also there was a rant about Poe, whose personal life was an unfortunate mess. You aren't wanting to repeat the excesses of the 19th century, you said, and so to avoid the appearance of more good writers, you are going to lock people out of their own heads. How can you write when you cannot think about that in any logical way? Yes, well, I suppose that you can try to do that, you can imagine that I have no private and verbally unexpressed thoughts to consider. You certainly do have power to make yourself a complete nuisance, but anyway you don't know much, obviously, and you're not really the judge, so why do we have to listen to you?