Tinasky/misappropriated texts

Henry Kingman hkingman at well.com
Mon Sep 22 22:16:58 CDT 1997


Speaking of misappropriated texts, is it really true that the ENTIRE
CORPUS of postings here could somehow sneak into print (i.e., into
Lineland)? Yikes! Where's that nom de plume...!

If so, I'd better do more fact checking (for example, I'm not really
certain TRP's wife WORKS for Holt -- she might just be his agent).

So much more fun to risk creative license when the words seem ephemeral
as a listserve... or a podunck newsweekly, eh Wanda?

I find an almost exhibitionistic glee in the Tinasky letters, as if TRP
the responsible author, so long inured of painstakingly fact-checking
his erudition, delighted in just ripping off a quick one now and then.
Zing! And on to more serious matters...




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