Let us return to the issue of authors and how they should respond to negative reviews

[james_davis_nicoll]

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

Nicked from erastes

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's been my experience that almost every behavior of the Victorian male can be accounted for by assuming that any given one of them will be an alcoholic, a syphilitic or both. Well, and then there are the laudanum addicts and those who had been driven insane by religion.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I suspect you've just identified a significant portion of male Victorian civilized society...