Re: Dr. Bowman, meet Dr. Seuss
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:19:04 -0500 (EST)
Some posts make every digression on this list worthwhile...
But I would like to add (I think),
However green or purple or blue your ink,
That I subscribe to grammar.com, Inc.,
And believe writing sans captials always stinks.
<<The most intriguing Joyce/Salinger parallel I've ever noticed is
between "The Dead" and "Uncle Wiggily." In many respects the same
story. Consider especially the (conscious) echo of Joyce's phrase,
"Poor Michael Fury," in Salinger's, "Pooer Uncle Wiggily."
--
Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>>
I'd really like to see you run with that one, Matt, cause I just can't
see it. I guess I can't get past comparing ... good lord, what was his
name? The West Briton guy that was the protagonist of the story?
Michael Gabriel? I can't draw parallels between him and the woman in
Uncle Wiggly. They seemed tormented by entirely different demons.
Jim
PS Wil...oops, scuse, me...will...God can't root for the Yankees. He's
too busy rooting for the team that plays for the City of the Angels :)
And speaking as a Dodger fan from the 1970s, lemme tell ya that I mean
that from the bottom of my heart :)
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:21:47 -0500 (EST) Mattis Fishman
<mattis@argoscomp.com> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> It seems that some of us when seeking guidance run quickly
> to our most familiar domains and consult our well worn
> tomes of wisdom, whether Freudian or Deconstructionist.
>
> I should perhaps be ashamed to admit that I turn to a somewhat
> less scholarly, if more enjoyable, work of the eminent doctor
> mentioned in the subject line, entitled "One Fish, Two Fish".
> While omitting what would seem to be an obligatory reference to
> bananas, it still contains such gems as "Today is gone, today
> is done/Tomorrow is another one."
>
> So in the spirit of a recent posting, I felt inspired to
> present a fragment of a little know work called "Green Ink
> and (you should pardon the expression) Hams".
>
> all the best,
> Mattis
>
>
> Green Ink and (you should pardon the expression) Hams
>
> Red or black, purple or pink
> I smile upon without a wink
> Yet my poor heart begins to sink
> When I see words penned in green ink
>
> It has a most annoying stink
> Like some noxious, cloying drink
> If only of yourself you think
> Your putrid words deserve green ink
>
>
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