Umm...I teach for a living. I feel quite a bit of pride whenever a student can come off his drug-related withdrawals enough to learn and to be a better person. I wouldn't trade my career as a teacher for a writer any day of the week, so the accusation is amusing.

As for Roberts, I imagine he spends a lot more time as a literature professor in London specializing in 19th century literature than he does worrying about WoTheads like you By the way, his reviews of WoT are up for a British Science Fiction Association award for non-fiction, if I'm not mistaken. I guess the jealousy extends to members of BSFA then?

But yes, this response of yours insures at least another day that this revived thread spends on the active three-day view here, helping keep up that fading illusion that people here still have things to talk about