I loved it, but i have a soft spot for Arcadia and Virgil's eclogues.

Damn. Are the HN literati rangers out, compelling the unwilling to read essays? Just as well I work in a building with a guard desk.

Please don't take threads in gratuitously resentful directions. It influences what comments show up later, in bad (i.e. uninteresting) ways. Much better would be to say something substantive that you like about the essay or the genre.