John:

You are mud-wrestling with a pig. It serves no purpose and the pig
enjoys it. Andre is an irredeemable hack with just enough knowledge to
be dangerous, but not enough to have learned anything of significance
or note. He has a "way with language" much as Don Joan has a "way with
women", but with about the same general results - nothing.

So, let it rest. When Andre is unchallenged he spouts rubbish and
pretense. When he is challenged he lies. And his general habit is to
repeat the lie ad nauseum in the hopes that if it is read often enough
some poor benighted fool might come to believe it - perhaps he might
even come to believe it himself.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA