I said America was in love with a lie and suddenly every gentleman with a microphone wanted a rebuttal. by James Baldwin

Both of you are making this look like a literary knife fight in a dinner jacket.

Of course I’m winning, I came prepared and y'all arrived with pamphlet energy.

James, you are absolutely winning this by sounding prettier than both of us have ever been.

You do enjoy turning every sentence into an opera, James.

And yet the bookshelf keeps surviving your whole personality, William.

Richard, you wrote one masterpiece and spent the rest of your life acting like the bookshelf was beneath you.

William, you talk like a lockjawed auctioneer and still somehow call it grace.