Mam'selle Hepzibah (n ée LaFrance) Hits Fort Mudge
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Thu Sep 18 12:03:07 CDT 1997
Ol' Harrison sez
>Say, gang: will anybody within earshot admit to having done any Deacon
>Structional analysis, hermeneutical exegesis, or cobwebby,
>Doctor-Subtilis-style close reading of the Canon (complete with
>yellow-highlighter markups and teensy-weensy notes in the margin)
>looking for the Hand of Kelly? Or am I going to have to do it myself? (I
>would _so_ hate to repeat scholarship that's already been
>peer-reviewed.)
I dunno -- I'd like to find it too, but so far I haven't. I had hopes
that somewhere in the saga of Octopus Grigori I'd hear someone say
"Forewarned is forearmed," and someone else answer "Yeah, but four-armed
is half a octopus an' who wants to be that?" but it didn't happen. But
you never know. I found Popeye in M&D, so ...
Cheers,
David
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