His "manic bile", Jim, consists of facts and statistics, backed up by reports &c from reputable, unbiased sources. Your responses inevitably consist of assertively denying them ever louder, as if that somehow disproved them. I quote John Gross on F R Leavis again, from The Rise and Fall of the English Man of Letters (Weidenfield & Nicolson 1969) ~~his "faintly ridiculous air of having triumphantly demonstrated what has merely been vigorously asserted". Your mode of argument to a T, Jim; and a quotation properly used, not intended to prove anything simply BY assertion like your silly one from the anorexic, but used descriptively to define the faults in your method of argument:- from your last addressed to me, and going retrospectively, they are all merely assertive, & not argumentative or demonstrative in any way.

~M~