Bruce routines

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

David Casseres writes:
> Gratuitous Lyndon Baines Johnson anecdote:  A friend of mine was in law 
> school in Chicago when LBJ made a big speech announcing his civil rights 
> bill (an achievement not to be disparaged, btw, in spite of his other 
> career as a war criminal).  My friend was having a beer in a South Side 
> saloon, where he was the only white person, and the news was on the TV.  
> LBJ reached the climactic moment of his speech and leaned forward, 
> staring straight into the TV lens, and declaimed "We -- shayall -- ovah 
> -- come!"  The entire room exploded with raucous, incredulous laughter...

> (Sorry, Andrew, no reference to Pynchon; but then you left him out of 
> your post about Schindler's List.)

If you cannot make a connection to Pynchon then I certainly can. And I
think that last statement is a counterfactual.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.