Don't take it too seriously, lads - just a little polemic to warm my cockles on a cold & pissed off afternoon on account of a crashed hard-drive during some crucial mixing.

Prattish, Jim? Hardly - the serious bit here is the exalted significance this stuff ought to enjoy as an essential part of the Literary Heritage of the English Speaking World. That it presently languishes as a sub-genre of an ever dwindling minority music is little short of criminal.