Fyodor suffers vituperation and invective from some of those he holds most dear.

She Who Must Be Obeyed and even You-Know-Who (a man who is more brother than friend to Your Humble Servant) assailed me last evening for the content I posted yesterday here in my little Bloggerdom Ghetto.

He went as far as accusing me of publishing my own "poor man's People magazine".

Ouch!

What hurts more is the realization that even they do not get it all the time. Silly me. What was I thinking?

I guess I am simply feeling sorry for myself because they do not always see the method to my idiocy.

How should I respond, kiddies?

With more from The Third Man, of course.


Harry Lime:
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. (Listen to the inimitable Orson Welles deliver these lines as only he could. Click on Track 15 here.)

And then there's this one:

Harry Lime:
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat. I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. They have their Five Year Plans, so have I. (Click on Track 13 here.)

Get it?