The future of the list?

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Ted Samsel writes:
> > Now, the only question is, who's got the guts to volunteer?

> Or the gall.

And lo the scales were lifted from our eyes and we relized that Ted
has been performing said duty all along. Only no one noticed. Which
maybe says something about the workability of such a scheme.

ObPynchon:
I finally managed to track down a copy of Ishmael Reed's Black Western
(that's sort of as in Black Comedy), `Yellow-Back Radio Broke Down'.
Was not impressed by Reed's later works but this one is equally as
brilliant as `Mumbo-Jumbo' (qv). Just thought maybe it might go some
way towards explaining that Whappo/Cr[o]utchf[i]eld episode in GR.
Although the tale borrows from the cliches of the 1880s style Western
(whether it be the novel, film or TV version) it explictly makes
reference to contemporary (as of 1968) events and perspectives
e.g. one of the cowboys in Mustache Sal's saloon claims that `Some of
them historians are saying that we're the only true Americans'.


Andrew Dinn
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We drank the blood of our enemies.
The blood of our friends, we cherished.