For the record, here she is stalking Feste, trying to 1) demonize him in
the eyes of others, and 2) taunt him as a strategy to lure him into a
protracted argument so she can do even more of it.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> My first send of this response never made it...
>
> Feste blustered (ooooh, tough):
>
>  > Oh auth, as an editor yourself, you surely realize the importance
of getting a book title exactly right. We are not talking about
searching for a title or whose error was the more significant one.
>
>  That's what you were talking about. You were practically wetting your
pants with eagerness to "get Judy." But the only thing you could come up
with was pathetically insignificant.
>
>  Me, I was concerned with the ability to locate a copy of the book
from the title (if you'll recall, Richard had recommended it--with the
wrong title--to Ann). I was not writing a Ph.D. dissertation or
copyediting the reference list of the ms. for somebody's scholarly book.
>
>  > Those questions are not relevant to what I was pointing out. It's
that simple, hon.
>
>  Tootsie, I was pointing out that what you were pointing out wasn't
relevant to being able to find the book from the title. Sorry if that's
too complex for you to grasp.
>
>  Unless I missed it, Richard never thanked me for correcting his
whopping error. Did I make a big fuss about that?
>
>  BTW, have I asked you whether you saw the post I directed to your
attention yesterday?
>
>  Why, yes, I have. Twice already, in fact. You seem to have some
difficulty responding. Gee, I wonder why.
>


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