Ouch! The homophobic viper strikes again, crawling out from her synthetic cave! I am so scared now! I think I should either: 1.Put on my mother’s clothes (which is, I suppose, not a very sophisticated/ironic, but a very common stereotype of gay people, indeed the only one this ill-witted she-troglodyte can think of) Or 2.Go back to reading my gay-porn literature (another original thought, right? We are so NOT amused! ) I need to correct you on something: you are addressing a Renaissance scholar here, so I do know my Machiavelli well. In fact, I know him very well, and that you choose to construct here “an ironic homage†to a cheap trashy mobster who lived centuries after Machiavelli had written his book is not self-explanatory. I failed to see that intricate connexion, I’m afraid. Try again – maybe a parallel to one of the characters from The Sopranos would ring a well-known bell to the NJ people. Finally: I will not stop ‘radiating’ from here. It’s rather nice to be said to radiate – it’s almost like Sun. If it blinds and bores the commoners and the primitives, what can I do about it?