Gentlefolk, let us be clear: Amos, as he now spells it, is a dear friend, an esteemed colleague, a gentleman of admirable invention and wit, a scholar of great breadth, and an aficionado [note correct spelling] of the very best in music and culture. I would defend him to the very last breath outside the portals of Mom's sacred holdings here. But behind our [sic again] Mom's holy portals, so to speak, anything goes and we parry in order to temper our blades, nothing more.