Point, set, match @GIGObuster. I sit at your feet, learning.
No saccharine allowed in the Pit, c’mon.
Sunny is correct. And your translation sucked. You removed all of the “Poetry” and made it boring.
Sure, buddy. See you “next week” 
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Gotcha! Slinc. That would be ‘slink’ as in ‘slither’ as in “lower than a snake’s belly”.
Envy does not become you, but then, so little does.
Yup, my first post of the week will be a reminder on the poker thread late Wednesday afternoon about the game that evening. Just like it is every. single. week. There for anyone to see. Not sure why you’re doubling down on this!
What you’re calling “poetry” is odd-sounding wording from an overly literal translation. The language does not sound affected in the original French, so you’re getting attached to something that’s not actually there, like a pigeon in a Skinner box.
Envy of…?
BTW, GIGO, you should be implicitly insulted by the patronizing way people shower praise on you, even in the Pit. That’s what people do when they think someone is “special” and are trying to overcompensate for a perception that the shortbus-rider is being unfairly picked on. (Which, FTR, I consider an unfairly unflattering underestimate of your cognitive capacity. You’re just a garden variety dumbass, not actually a person with an intellectual disability.)
BTW you are an idiot if you think one would miss that you want to insult others while claiming at the same time that you care for them. It is indeed your same mode of operation when you do your concern trolling act when Democrats or other liberals gore your ox.
Who did I claim to care for, pray tell?
(Okay, now I’m gone. C ya Wednesday.)
Well, I see that calling you an idiot does stand. 
As for your reply here, I guess you forget that you said that what they do to me is unfair to me and they underestimate my capacities. IOW, you do care… at least a little.
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Must be your genes, you keep forgetting things, get help.
If you think we hesitate to pick on people with obvious mental problems, how do you explain this thread?
Look, we already know you have no clue about literature, no need to prove it any further. “Poetic” and “affected” are not synoyms, and Proust is indeed poetic in the original, even I can tell that.
Something you sucked all the life out of, but Davis retains. And that’s no surprise, given she has a Booker prize for her own writing. But hey, you’ll always have your ACT certificate…
More likely a GED.
Now, now. That’s not fair. Plenty of good, decent, and intelligent non-racist people with GEDs. #NotAllGEDTakers
You are absolutely right. Thank you for catching that.
I should know better. Some of the most articulate and intelligent people I know have GEDs.
Re: Slinc’s penultimate educational achievement is no doubt academic suspension at Trump University.
:rimshot: Take Dibble’s wife, please! Wokka wokka. He’ll be here all week, tip your waitresses, etc.
You misunderstand me, sir (not for the first time, nor surely the last). I alerted you to the way others are patronizing you, not out of any motive of kindness, but rather a hope that the knowledge would bring with it the sting of humiliation. 
And you failed miserably … as usual.
So, yeah, that you are an idiot does stand.
So you have no shame? Yeah, I could see that.
The irony, it burns.
I don’t think anyone in the thread is ashamed of calling you an idiot. 
Aah, I see, your clever plan to prove you didn’t spend all “break” thinking of replies is going to be - being utterly devoid of any wit. Well, that’s certainly going to show me…
…well, it would, if it wasn’t indistinguishable from your usual lack of anything resembling wit.