I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
-Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (1492-1556)


That one never has worked for me. It’s the kind of reverse psychology thing that backfires every time. Speaking of which, whatever you do don’t leave a comment on this post, so that some human dialog might take place. I would rather have you keep silent than tell me the truth, and thereby burst the insegrievious soapbubble of my solitude.

Heh heh heh, that’ll get ’em.

Yeah, bwahaha-shnerk. Oh man, soapbubbles up my nose.