Attached Link: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I gave up expecting honesty, integrity, and fairness from the Poser community about the time they mobbed Steve Cooper and put CL out of business. As artists, they can be appealing; as technicans, they can be awesome. As individuals, some of them are fun; as a community, it has the appeal of rabid sheep."

Dear Mickma;

I've always respected your opinion, even when I didn't always agree with it.  Also, your site is one of my favorites.  I just love your pastiche of Jean-Léon Gérôme**’**s, 'The Poser (Slave) Market,' and think it's a real pity that you felt compelled to remove it from here (I myself have downloaded it and saved it to my HD, lest it be lost forever).  I also enjoyed your essay on Dan Brown’s 'The Da Vinci Code,’ especially in light of some National Geographic documentaries on the same subject.

However, in this thread you've now left me completely confused.  Who the heck is Steve Cooper?  I thought that Curious Labs was still a viable company.  I thought that the danger from sick sheep was anthrax, not hydrophobia.

The rest of the post makes about as much sense as the writings of Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).  I've tried to follow this post, and to maintain an even judgment of its pros and cons, but so many allusions to unknown issues just leaves my head spinning.  If allusions must be included in your arguments, then at LEAST give us an idea of what they are in reference to; otherwise, you've lost your argument, simply because you've lost your audience.

I remain, very respectfully yours,
David P. Hoadley

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