How to be wished a Merry Christmas

After an evident demonstration of hostility by one of the current FA mods, I have asked for all my fics to be taken down. I have had far too much of this kind of thing in the past, and this time I am not disposed to fight or to be again exposed to fandom_wank by the mod's little helpers. Besides, I cannot see the point of staying on the damn site when even new fics don't get one review between them. I've had it with FA and its self-important berks, and I doubt if I ever will go back there for any reason except reading the few fics I still like.

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Silent Night

The greatest Christmas song of all time was composed in the Austria of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, and clearly some echo of their genius had reached its composer, FX Gruber (some of whose other work is still played in his native land). But there is something else that lives at the heart of this masterpiece: the song is essentially a lullaby for God asleep as a child - and Gruber had lost four of his eight children in infancy. I think there is a connection, and when I think of it, I feel tears in my eyes.

To all those I have friended in the last two years

To all my more recent friends, who have not read this post: http://fpb.livejournal.com/270073.html - please do, and do it today or tomorrow. It is important, and includes the answer to one of the most widespread and groundless religious myths in existence.