The wankers still live

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It has been months if not years since I'd last heard from the masturbation brigade. But evidently some of the desperate creatures still draw breath and still have nothing better to do. An anonymous spammer left me the benefit of its considered thoughts - an illiterate one-line note full of jailbird language - on the subject of Roman Polanski. Get ready for a fandom_wank entry charging me with sympathy with rapists, even though nothing I wrote had anything to do with Polanski himself.

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[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Is this old news, or did fandom_wank just get suspended?

A note to thank you.

[southindian.livejournal.com]

I had to do a Google search for Fandom Wank to know what you were talking about.


Anyway, I found that they exist in another place now. But that's not the reason I'm writing this. Through the entry in your name in the F_W wiki which I found in the Google search, I went to your Amazon reviews, and among others, I read your review of Agatha Christie's Pale Horse.

I have always admired Agatha Christie's writings since it seemed to me that hidden under the detective mystery there was always a strong current of moral philosophy. (The once exception I have found to her otherwise strong approval of long-suffering and perseverance is the fact that she seems to see divorce and re-marriage as not something bad when one spouse is unbearable. But that's probably because she was not Catholic.)


Getting back to the point, Pale Horse was always a favourite of mine, but now when I was reading your line that "evil is a matter of inadequacy, of small men feeling their smallness. There is "no demonic majesty, no black and evil splendour"; those are almost a consoling disguise which decent ordinary people prefer to place on the reality of evil, petty, mean and indecent as it is, to escape the vision of its depressing and familiar ordinariness" it suddenly struck me that there are certain vices in me that I need to uproot as soon as possible, and these inadequacies in me, and not the misunderstandings of others, have been the cause of much problems in my life lately.



I thought I'd write a note to thank you for that review which helped me understand this forcefully. I suppose you never thought that your review of a detective novel would help someone practically in their life. I wonder if it is Providence?

[elise-the-great.livejournal.com]

There'll always be wankers. But very few of them, I suspect, can point to as many people that genuinely like them as you can.