Do people like SYCOPHANTS?

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 36688

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:
 Back to Eileen:
> 
> > Now, I can take the pain given to weaker characters, and, being a 
> > FEATHERBOA, enjoy it, but my heart still goes out to every 
> > miserable fictional character that comes along. 
> 
> <Elkins smiles in sympathy and offers Eileen a sprig of Dicentra 
> Eximia, the Western Bleeding Heart, which grows bountifully here in 
> the drizzly Green city of Portland, Oregon.>  
> 
::Dicentra_spectabilis_alba looks at her name and over to the
SYCOPHANTS charter, then over to her name again and realizes that she
chose as an alias a freaking bleeding heart, which she is not. Then
she hastens to clarify... ::

Bleeding heart people may be old softies, but Dicentras are Tough in
that they emerge in early spring, despite cold temperatures. (You Zone
7 folks and some Zone 6s should be seeing them right now.) They thrive
in extremely poor soil (which my soil is) and get bigger and bigger
every year.  Yeah, the little flower sprigs are delicate enough, but
the plant as a whole is a real trooper.

Just out of curiosity, Elkins, does this pity you feel for SYCOPHANTS
like Peter extend to Mercy?  When you see Peter writhing on the floor,
crying, do you want to comfort him, or are you content, though sad, to
see him get his just desserts?

--Dicentra, who probably shouldn't have mentioned dessert...