But maybe I'm jumping the gun and you were being sarcastic in a way I can't read.
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> Jeez, what a cipher. How do you deduce this kid as being "intelligent,
> well-educated"? He sounds incurious, untutored and solipsistic to the point
> of being feral. One almost has to admire the effort it must have taken to
> preserve this teenager's cranium in such a content-free state. Again the
> words of Doc Johnson come to mind: "Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull,
> naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become
> what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
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> I'd advise your son to seek a more intellectually stimulating companion -- a
> p