some comments and a question

Sojourner sojourner at vt.edu
Tue Sep 16 09:22:40 CDT 1997


At 03:04 PM 9/16/97 BST, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

>Believe it or not it all started with an unfortunate, or maybe it was
>actually more fortunate than un, gynecological allusion by Paul Mackin
>offered by way of insight into the distinction between amateur and
>professional connoisseur of literature. On which sacrificial altar
>Dana espied the raised standard of phallogocentrism and cried `foul',
>`hand ball', `invasion of privates' and other such ejaculations.
>Mitty's musings were a footnote, doubtless guiltily enjoyed by the
>Bodine faction - who appreciate fine writing all the more when spiced
>with foul content - but all the same a side show to Sojourner's star
>turn in the main ring. Check out the full story when it hits the
>archive.
>

Ack!! Watch out!  I have no plans of writing a pamphlet, much less
a book, but beware the furious bandersnatch of making me into
some kind of celebrity!

*grin*



	"Fame is hell"

	   --Zen proverb





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