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Yes, I would be lying if I ever said that I had ever actually read any of Alcott's books, much less professed to be a fan of her sort of blithering, although she does appear in the Authors card game, and anyway who am I to argue with an American whose successful writing career has attained legendary proportions? I don't know much about that. But of course, all white girls look the same to you, you obviously are unable to differentiate between the various types of white girls, all white girls look the same to you, easier to just put everyone in the same basket of transcendentalism that, anyway, had its place in 19th century history, but anyway there is much water under the bridge since that time, now approaching 200 years later.  

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Yes, one can easily imagine that Hitler himself may have had a very high IQ, having achieved high honors in his National Honor Society. Lots of people have probably scored higher than I did on the SAT, and yet not having studied these points, I cannot have any idea what that was supposed to mean. Some people's heads are full of differential equations and parabolical formations, and yet, what is that but a useful tool for the engineering and scientific projects that may be assigned to them in the future to benefit mankind generally speaking? These are not the elements of the theological picture illuminating the meaning of these things.

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Yes, I am thinking that there is no way that I could ever possibly compete with Barbara Wilder. She and her brother Jeff Wilder were in our school during 6th grade, back in the days when jumprope was the thing to do at recess, although Barbara Wilder usually did not participate in that due to her beng flat-footed. Yes, I think that I too cannot compete with Barbara Wilder, because anyway that is not who I am. We are not the Wilder family.  

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Yes, in that lengthy speech that you sent me, there was also a rant about Puritans, oh how you hate Puritans. Puritans were the perpetrators of witch trials and book burnings and other things of an extremely legalistic nature. Well, we cannot say that their holy war did not bear fruit in the centuries that followed, but now that the Puritans are mostly gone or exiled to Russia, what will be the fruit borne by the next generation? These questions are beyond me. That will be your problem, not mine.

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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?

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Yes, me leak? What leak? Why is everyone talking about that broomstick? She was nobody worth mentioning. The vacant stare in her empty eyes is somewhat off-putting. There was no reason for me to risk entangling myself in some unknown mess. Who is going to have my back? Obviously no one.

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Yes, I do vaguely remember that someone was talking about her pill philosophy, but she was married so she can talk about these things, whereas I am not married and so I really can't say much about that, I only know what I read in magazines, where is the ring on my finger that would entitle me to elaborate more fully on the topic of pills, I might take an aspirin for a headache but that is the extent of my pill taking, I am not going to respond to these idiotic promptings.