Hi Everyone -- I just got a series of harassing emails from "Alan Tarica," so I thought I'd add my experiences to the list. I thought I would post our exchange here to clear up any confusion for anyone else who has the strange and unfortunate experience of interacting with him. I have no idea who this guy is -- he emailed me completely out of the blue and refused to identify himself. In a nutshell: Alan Tarica is a some sort of weirdo who goes around randomly emailing people, trying to get them to read his bogus conspiracy theory website on Shakespeare's sonnets. If you respond to him in any way whatsoever (perhaps to ask him "who are you?") he will refuse to tell you who he is, and insult you in order to try to goad you into looking at his website. It is a truly strange experience. Here is the exchange I had with him last week:
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:20 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Evander,
I thought you might enjoy my take on Shakespeare's Sonnets.
https://sites.google.com/site/eternitypromised/
Sincerely,
Alan Tarica
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, E..P <e…***@gmail.com> wrote:
Beg your pardon, but do I know you?
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Why do you suppose that is the most relevant question? Are you concerned about the link? In that case it is a google site and completely safe.
Do you not run a literary blog? Are you not interested in literature, arts, culture? How many people are offering complete exegeses of Shakespeare's Sonnets? Do you not think it would be worth a look?
Why don't you show me how smart you are and savage me with your brilliant criticism?
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, E..P <e…***@gmail.com> wrote:
This is truly a strange exchange.
I'm not in the mood to be challenged by some anonymous person on the internet who seems to be cold calling random scholars with trolling remarks. Surely someone such as yourself with such knowledge of Shakespeare would have better understanding of propriety and etiquette than to go about so randomly and rudely.
Please do not contact me further.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:17 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Fine it will be my pleasure not to have to interact further with you but to suggest propriety and etiquette trumps veracity and knowledge is a position only a fool could take.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:22 PM, E..P <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Your claim may be true, and yet, here we are, one of us in graduate school, and the other of us spending his days sending rude emails to random people on the internet.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm done with graduate school and the fact that by your own admission you are not smart enough to any reasonable determination of the epistemological quality of my work illustrates quite clearly your own lack of ability and intellect to be quite frank. And you'll like never be in any position to send random emails and receive responses like this:
Greenblatt, Stephen <***@f.h.edu>
Dear Alan Tarica,
Many thanks for this, which I've begun to read with pleasure.
Best,
SG
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:40 PM, E..P <***@gmail.com> wrote:
The lady doth protest too much methinks.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:42 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Real clever you intellectual pansy.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, E..P <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Why? Who are you? You email me out of the blue and ask that I review your work. All I asked is who you are and you start insulting me.
Random anonymous internet troll starts spewing ad hominem attacks at random people he emails. No way I will click your link -- how could I possibly trust it?
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't ask you to review anything dipshit. I offered it purely for your edification (which you obviously need). Further explained that the link is obviously safe and to which again you would realize if again you were not a dipshit.
I don't give a shit if you look or not at this point. You are obviously clueless and useless.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, E..P <***@gmail.com> wrote:
I finally Googled you and found that you do this regularly to all sorts of people.
Scholarship doesn't hide underneath the cloak of anonymity.
You are nothing more than a conspiracy theorist -- but I do hope that your anonymous, one-man effort to promote your work provides you at least with a sense of fulfillment and purpose.
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:35 PM, <***@gmail.com> wrote:
You are a complete idiot. It is not anonymous when I put my name on it! And if you were not completely stupid and had the slightest bit of intellectual curiosity, talent and integrity you would fully recognize that I'm not just a conspiracy theorist, but a brilliantly creative conspiracy theorist.
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