Hi Mark

I think mad bastard Carr has gone way beyond acceptable humour with his stupid impersonation thing. Hopefully people will recognize the Kilroy Silk stuff, but the principle (of impersonation)seems to me sufficiently noxious that it should be punished - you should take down the link unless he acknowledges that it his own work. Any amount of criticism, sarcasm or abuse is fine with me, but this is not (at the limit it could get me chucked out of the PRC). Please don't encourage it.

A crueller man than I would have posted your message of encouragement to Daniel Pipes, or a link to your column from February 20.

In love and bewildered concern,

Michael

It's the cops!

Nick,
I'd prefer to be positive about this and think that it raises interesting questions about the acceptable limits of satire, appropriation, names, personae, pseudonyms, (cf Linda Trent on pseudononymous abominations). Surely the bizarre context of the Sphaleotas site makes it unlikely that anyone would think that the piece was the work of the 'real' Nick Land. In any case, doesn't your demurral here effectively settle the question of your (non) authorship?