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From David Brin's Earth :

"It was, indeed, a bad habit, this toying with people. But as the years flickered by it grew easier. They all forgave so, almost as if they expected it... demanded it of her. And because she tested everybody, taking contrary positions without prejudice, fewer and fewer people seemed to believe she meant anything she said at all!

Perhaps, Jen admitted honestly, that would be the world's long-term revenge on her. To attribute everything she said to jest. That would be some fate for the so-called 'mother of the modern Gaian paradigm.'"

[sigh] ... if I was worried that I was misunderstood before, now I've got one more thing to include among possible reasons why.