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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