A propos of nothing, I want to point out this post by James Smith responding to my post on the artificiality of Alan Moore’s writing; I’ve had the thing bookmarked for ages. James takes things in a number of directions, from pointing out that comparing Watchmen to a group-written enterprise like The Sopranos is an apples/oranges deal to suggesting that Moore’s imposition of patterns on patternless life is what people do all the livelong day.