Frivolous literary note

[Henry Musikar]

Wasn't gonna get into this until you called me "Mr. Musikar." Them's
fightin' words, Mr. Grace. 

I considered the attributions and chose them for relevance, interest,
and recognizability. 

1. That KCBC was written by TRP is more important 
than the character chosen to utter what I believe is a rather general
maxim for TRP (are there any other maxims other than the PFPs?"

2. DON'T PANIC is most interestingly inscribed on both the actual and
imaginary books, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Anyone who
wants to can look up Adams as the author.

3. Husky Mariner is the best that I was able to come up with, and
while perhaps less interesting, is more pleasant than "Sneering Cad"
or "Incensed Rag."

4. I can only attribute my A.E. Newman to laziness on my part. WMW is
easily recognized by most of us as the periodic utterance of the
fictional character A.E. Newman. Attributing WMW to the person who
first put the phrase into Newman's mouth would have been more
interesting, but would have required time to research who that person
was (or perhaps someone on the list...), time that I didn't have at
the time.

 On 14 May 97 
at 8:59, dennis grace <amazing at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
<snip>
> As for the irreality of attributing such lines to the characters,
> consider Mr. Musikar's remaining two sig lines.  He attributes
> "DON'T PANIC" to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional
> creation of Douglas Adams; he attributes "What, me worry?" to A.E.
> Newman, a fictional creation of somebody at MAD magazine.  Such
> attributions are not unusual.
<snip>

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
DON'T PANIC! -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What, me worry? -- A. E. Newman