Holy is the Firm?

[Steelhead]

John Sutherland sez:

>Yeah, there was a big to-do about Dillard insulting our local honor in
>The Seattle Times a couple of months back.  (Slow news town, what can I
>say?)  Turns out she was, uh, kidding.  We're gonna tie her down and
>make her wear a plaid flannel nursing gown anyway, if she ever shows up
>again.

Well, according to the Oregonian this morning, she apologized, sent a photo
of herself to the local fishwrap with two bandaides crossing her mouth and
belatedly retracted her bizarre statements, but did not say she
was--ahem--"kidding."

Word is Annie divorced the poet Richard Dillard, after her moment in the
sun, following publication of Pilgrim at Tinkle (just kidding) Creek,
because he wasn't up in her intellectual statosphere and kept asking her to
help out in the garden. Annie said, Damnit, Richard, I'm thinking. Can't
the nurse mammie weed the Swiss char?

Say, wasn't one of her books called:  Holy is the Firm!

That should have been a clue right there.

In Annie's case, less really is less.

Steely