Dear Rapaire:

I could not tell from your post whether you were proposing a simple assault and battery, the resort of a common thug, or whether you were under the misimpression we had an appointment to battle on the field of honor. For your edification (1) we have no such appointment and (2) we have between us no grounds to merit such an appointment, and finally, (3) there is no such field at the Getaway. It's not that kind of place.

I will not fight you, will not choose weapons, will not be lured into insulting you to justify such crude mechanisms, and will not take umbrage at any manipulations you choose to resort to in order to try and bring me into your over-heated, combative world. I will not offer you any gore, and no-one is likely to offer you any bush, either. But we will be glad to swap music with you.


A