November 29 and you were already making fun of my age. Well, I'm even *older* now so I expect higher quality repartee.

It seems this is a pretty recurrent theme of ours. No, not the "old vs child" one; that is obvious and eternal, like your nine-year-oldness. I mean the "heroes and villains" theme.

Why? I am certainly not a hero—although you are, by all definitions of the book, a villain. Maybe I am the archetypal child-born-on-farm that suffers a Call to Adventure triggered by a comment on an article about waiting rooms, where he discovers his chosen-one nature and his divine duty to rise to the evil threatening to cast *Armangeddon* over the world.

So far I've sided with the villain. I think I might be doing it wrong.