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I've always liked the end of the anti-foreword:

> Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.



You forgot the last bit: "Bon appetite!"

Definitely the politest way anyone has ever been told to eat shit in human history.


Props for the inclusion of that in the book. "Mighty white of them", as they used to say in Bechuanaland.


My first instinct was that this phrase is racist, especially with you saying it was used in an ex-British southern African colony.

This was the best I could find as to its origins:

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-whi...


Relax, the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

And so's the future - probably next century we'll be looked down upon as sad sacks of shit who didn't have the decency to get our weights into clean silicon.




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