A Glasgow kiss

[fpb]

For those who are not British, a Glasgow kiss is a head-butt. I just had an experience that compares, metaphorically.

There is a person online with whom I am not often in agreement. In fact, I once or twice asked him why he keeps ascribing me the worst possible reasons any time I make a comment.

This morning I found myself in the unusual position of wholly agreeing with something he had written. What is more, it was an issue on which I had been thinking and writing for a quarter-century, including a long passage in one of the essays of which I am proudest. (And of which I keep hearing the nicest things from people who stumble on it one way or another.)

So I cut out the relevant passage and posted it in his comments section.

He deleted it without reading it.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Time to unfriend.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

He claims he read the extract, but I can see no evidence of it. And much though I tried to avoid it, I'm afraid you're right.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

I read the extract and the original essay, and as I told you, I didn't delete your posts, I screened them while inquiring why you felt a need to post such large excerpts instead of context and some links.

But if you think all of the above is a big fat lie and I acted out of spite, then I guess that's what you're gonna believe.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It's worse than a lie, it's self-justification.
1) Screening is not an unfriendly act? Especially if you take no trouble to explain why?
2) As long as you give no evidence of having actually paid attention to anything I said, that you actually allowed your eyes to rest on it for a short while makes no difference.