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Ah - and under the name "sprezzatura". Well I remember one of the most offensively poor essays I ever read, with the line "That's sprezzatura, baby"...

How can you spend this much time on the web and still be stupid enough to get caught?

What I really want to know is: how can somebody be stupid enough to get caught? Just email your sock puppetry comments to a really good friend, someone you can trust with absolute certainty, and have that person post the comments. How hard can it be?

Well that friend might have a big mouth...even the reliable ones do. If you really MUST do it, just go to the public library.

Jane Galt is the most insightful commentator known to me. Her daringly muscular prose leaves onlookers wishing they had the sheer style to attempt her gyrations of intellect. Where she has detractors, they are merely jealous pygmies, twisted with hatred in their tiny hearts for the grand and beautiful cathedrals of prosodic reason that Jane Galt erects.
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Sprezzatura is currently unemployed and will sockpuppet for food. I'm sorry the Lee Siegel thing backfired but I will advance your cause given suitable cues on how you would like to praised in your blog comments section.

Here's a sample of my work for Siegel - hard hitting, no?

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I'm a huge fan of Siegel, been reading him since he started writing for TNR almost ten years ago. (Full disclosure: I'm an editor at a magazine in NYC and he's written for me too.) I watch the goings-on and have to scratch my head. The people who hate him the most are all in their twenties and early thirties. There's this awful suck-up named Ezra Klein--his "writing" is sweaty with panting obsequious ambition--who keeps distorting everything Siegel writes--the only way this no-talent can get him. And I ask myself: why is it the young guys who go after Siegel? Must be because he writes the way young guys should be writing: angry, independent, not afraid of offending powerful people. They on the other hand write like aging careerists: timid, ingratiating, careful not to offend people who are powerful. They hate him because they want to write like him but can't. Maybe if they'd let themselves go and write truthfully, they'd get Leon Wieseltier to notice them too.

-- Sprezzatura

Maybe people take up sock-puppetry because it pays well...

Oh, sock puppets have been around as long as socks. Marcel Proust, Henry Adams, Jonathan Swift, among other heavys, all wrote things about themselves or their works that were published under assumed names or the names of friends. Really, tis true.

Sock puppetry may have its uses, but if the sock puppet(s) begin complementing or defending each other, it's going to be painfully obvious that a con game is in progress.

Great point, anony-mouse!

Big Al wrote:

Oh, sock puppets have been around as long as socks.

How long is that, then?

Good one, Ellipsis! You go get'em, anony-mouse!

Hey, stop sock-puppeting me, Lee Siegal!

What are you lot on about, then, and why aren't ther e any good videos anymore?

Oh my - I just heard about a case of ALEXANDER HAMILTON sock puppetry in the Chernow biography (my current dog walking listen). He was writing pseudonymously about the Jay treaty with England and pseudonymously sock-puppeted a commentary about how brilliant his other pseudonym was! Indeed, I think the pseudonyms were as transparent as Camillus and Philocamillus (though that might have been for a different batch of pamphleteering).

Three Words and Scifi reference: Locke and Demosthenes

Hamiltonians, here in LaPorte?

We at Sprezzatura Inc. are investigating new ways to avoid sock-puppetry blowing up in ones face (or on one's feet, ha ha.)

One option we're investigating is posting the sock-puppeted contributions under a name which (to any smart reasonable person) would be an obvious pseudonym for the person involved.

Thus, comments from Lee Siegel would be posted by Le Geisel. Etc. If these pseudonyms were too obvious, we could offer rot-13 or 128-bit cryptography. Thus, if someone busted "Yrr Fvrtry" or "10FA55C87D0" for sock-puppetry, we could point out that it was an obvious pseudonym for "Lee Siegel", chosen only to be witty!

We believe that sock-puppet social-engineering is still in its infancy, and deplore the prevalent mocking attitude toward our work.

What on Earth? Did the former Scrapplefacers and now Villianous Company Companions start in on Megan's blog?

Very funny, guys and gals.

How can all you people clown around like this when there are millions of people dying of AIDS in Africa?

Hey, Kevin, how about reviewing my book nicely? There's no need to read it, mind you, I don't bother to read the books that I review, especially the ones by Christianists.

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