The Washington Post, January 25th, 2002
Ladies and gentlemen, as mature adults, can we not agree that revenge is infantile, pointless, antisocial and, above all, really cool? Ah, revenge! So impractical in the real world, so much fun in the fantasy one! Frustrate me and suffer, fool! Feel the lash of my scorn, the heel of my boot, the tip of my sword! Die sniveling, dog, knowing of your inferiority! And I'm only talking about editors! I haven't even started on you readers! But if the stuff of revenge is fuel for countless popular fictions as well as popular fantasies, it has never been delivered more expertly than by Alexandre Dumas...
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