Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. That is our policy. Placing first a word that in terms of sense should come last. You're not out to learn anything, certainly.
Most writers find the world and themselves interchangeable.
Petrarch's Invectives against the Doctor , for example, is an archetypical Renaissance confrontation of rhetoric and medicine, as well as a primitive encounter of Humanism and science, or at least pseudo-science. Maureen Dowd isn't the worst newspaper columnist in the country. She's not even the worst columnist on the New York Times's op-ed page. That distinction belongs to Abe Rosenthal, the retired executive editor turned ranting, purple-faced pundit. Her personal life is the source of endless fascination and speculation.