Yes, I knew that, Jayne, but it does make one feel a little sick when one responds to a post that's later changed with no evidence of its having been done. It happened twice on the Bookish thread, with one post disappearing altogether, and once on this one.
This is why I introduced the word "zugzwang". It's a situation in chess where one is forced to make a move in a situation where to do so weakens one's position and it seems to me the perfect counter to the customary, polite "nevermind". Which in this case we have not got.
I know I am sounding like a trendy-lefty pseudo-intellectual, envious of privilege, and I'm not for a moment suggesting any malevolent sub-agenda, just saying that retrospective tweaking without acknowledgement is a tad unfair in a forum which is founded on repartee.
That doesn’t mean that I am not now heartily wishing I’d not raised the matter.
And John, dear heart – that bookshop comp is current. At any moment you will be announcing its winners. I was suggesting that its losers could enter this one with the same poems. Thus, I hoped, claiming all those shoes and handbags, which I intended to sell on eBay. Apart, that is, from the pink Crocs…
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