John, I don't think "superior taste" is the issue. I think you and I should form a support group for authors of losing Titus Andronicus poems. At our meetings, we'll sit around grumbling about how the winner didn't even get the facts of the play straight. Titus doesn't eat his own children. He kills his enemy's children and tricks her into eating them. (It's only slightly less horrible when you know that the children in question are adults.)
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