Updike, eh?

[malignd at aol.com]

<< OK, now you're lying. You said something like "how many of you have 
read these works [referring to what had been mentioned, which was 
Eastern philosophy]? None of you." I distinctly remember that "none of 
you" as being your words, because it stood out as being ridiculously 
assumptive; as though you could possibly know what people on the list - 
which is, incidentally, worldwide - had read. Completely ridiculous.>>

You're confusing me with someone else, peabrain.  Look it up.

<<... aside from the fact that I am probably much smarter and more 
well-read than you ...>>

This is highly unlikely.  And if true, little good it's done you.

<<... it's absurd to call someone a name because you disagree with 
their literary tastes.>>

It's not absurd; it's quite pleasurable and, in your case, entirely 
apt.