But the manner of the statement - calling the works by their nicknames rather than their titles - betrayed the gulf between the two.
Even among those who participated, some were more active than others, offering contributions and responses to others, while others simply gave their view in the manner of a statement, without any dialogue.
In the manner of horoscopes, the statements are so widely applicable ("your creativity," "your family problems") that almost anyone could think that they were addressed to him.
"Due to similarities in the wording of the statements and the manner of suicides, as well as statements made by other detainees interviewed," the investigators wrote, "there was growing concern that someone within the Camp Delta population was directing detainees to commit suicide and that additional suicides might be imminent.
The lesson for the media, print and electronic, is to challenge, in a civil manner, the veracity and sources of statements when they are first proclaimed.
Microphones seemed to call to Mr. Mayer, reach down his throat and disinter all manner of frisky, eyebrow-raising statements.
Although he saw the timing and manner of the prime minister's statement as a personal snub and deeply divisive act for the party, he brushed aside questions about the political furore at home, saying it was business as usual.
Across all clinical and ethnic groups, there was a fairly even distribution of statements expressing satisfaction with the physician's manner and rapport as compared with dissatisfaction.
PHP treats newlines as whitespace in the manner of a free-form language, and statements are terminated by a semicolon.
