In which Lopate suddenly wins my dorky heart

...by comparing his sister's cynicism to the Marquise de Merteuil.

This is an unnecessary blog update. But I am at work and having wandered to EA who send me to three AEs, no one has anything for me to do. I've done the mail two days in a row now out of sheer boredom and am resisting doing it again today. BAD SUBMISSIONS, PLZ.