GRGR (6): Darlene and other British delicacies

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Paul Mackin wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
>
> > The entire book strikes me as comic relief--mindless, though mindful
> > pleasure. One can take any section of GR and read it on a train as a short
> > story just for the fun of it, and laugh and laugh all the way home.
>
> This seems oddly true. It's another matter however to hold it all
> together as a novel. THAT takes real concentration.
>
>                         P.

I guess you mean concentration on the part of the dear old fellow reading the
book. Yes real concentration and two concentrators are better than one right?
Some say Homer
was native to the he island of Chios or Hios or Khios.The Greeks say  "two heads
are
better than one" or two sets of eyes are better than one set or something like
that. They also say crazy people come from this island. They also say that
madness is a good thing sometimes. Turkish soldiers forced the Greeks on this
island to carry them on their backs (piggy back style). So the Greeks took to
carrying each other piggy back so as not forced to carry Turks, Jesus said that
if a soldier demands that you carry his load one mile, carry it two, and if he
slaps, turn the other cheek, the crazy Greeks say--two heads are better than
one.

So lets put our heads together and c o n c e n t r a t e, but not so hard as to
lose consciousness. Unconscious men can't laugh and even if they could, jeepers
what a position to be in.