mouseworks

I had a fellow but male graduate student, who thirty or so years later never amounted to much (Google is so wonderful in vindications). He thought at the time that he was one of the best writers of his generation and tried push me for more emotion (dark erotic emotions) in my work. I didn't have the nerve then to say that "Judging from your own work, I don't think you're capable to giving advice I'd want to follow," though that was what I was thinking.

I've probably brought this one up before -- I'm still pissed at myself for not saying that then, but I thought I could be wrong, and he might have been angry.