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What are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?

Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?

Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.

I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.

Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.

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I feel that I've tried, in these last years, to admit to what I like. Starting with Shakespeare (in my profession). I guess my recent post on how Richard Brautigan was actually really good.

I know! Kipling! I tend to stay quiet about that.

Because of the curse, no one born after 1959 can ever open a Richard Brautigan book so I can't actually verify that you should be castigated.

However, The Theologians > Dayspring Mishandled. So take that.

Probably. But I'm going to say that I like Kipling's best poetry a lot better than Borges's.

You've touchéd my tush touchy.