MDMD(8) LED and God

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Sep 15 14:47:52 CDT 1997


God = dog spelled backwards, of course, in the joke my son brought home
some years ago from first grade, I believe, as perhaps we all have done.

Wondering if we'll also find a play on "why does the chicken cross the road?",
Doug

At 1:21 PM 9/15/97, Christine Karatnytsky wrote:
>Remember, now, page 19 and the last verse of Learned's introductory song
>and you will see with whom Pynchon's sympathies firmly rest regarding
>beings omniscient:
>
>                I quote enough of the Classical Stuff
>                To set your Ears a-throb,
>                Work logarith-mick Vers`ed Sines
>                Withal, within me Nob,
>                --Only nothing *Ministerial*, please
>                Or I'm apt to lose m'Job,
>                As the Learn`ed English Dog, to-ni-ight!

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