Krivit has irrevocably cut me off in high dudgeon, throwing his wrist to his his forehead and his head back to entreat The Heavens, like an incensed Victorian maiden who overheard me telling an off-color joke. I should mail him a bottle of smelling salts. Arata once sent me a similar message in Japanese, which is even more effective for such missives. For a reporter, Krivit is extraordinarily thin skinned! This is like being a doctor who is afraid of blood.
This field has enough drama queens to fill a amateur summer theater performance. He wrote to me as follows: Subject: dishing it out Hi Jed, I didn't say that they were idiots, but that it gives that impression. And I didn't name anybody in particular. You've spent enough time analyzing Bob Park's invective so you should know ad hominem when you see it. Don't bother copying me any more on your hate mail. I'm sending all your e-mail messages from this point onwards to the DBR filter. (Delete Before Read.) If you have something important and useful to share with me, as you have often done in the past, please telephone me. Please keep up your excellent work on gathering and publishing documentation on the field. As much as I don't appreciate your personal attacks, I do appreciate and respect your contributions to the field. Kind regards, Steve
