GRGR(4) kenosha kid / irving washington

[JL]

Name the officer playing word games in a hospital:

 After the first day he had no curiosity at 
 all.  To break the monotony he invented games.
 Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, 
 and out of every letter that passed through
 his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
 The next day he made war on articles.

It seems that all my recent posts to the p-list are only
saying that such-and-such a passage reminds me of something 
else.  I'll stop now, except to say that when I reached 
the kk section on my first read of GR, I was convinced that 
it was a rip-off of the above (- an opinion since modified). 

Hey, Cjhurtt at aol.com, I like your healthy skepticism.
It's interesting, though, how the kute little 'hommages' 
that we all seem to imagine we notice depend so much on
ourselves while remaining such an important part of the 
text.  How important is Intention anyway?  Got some work 
to do now before GRGR(14)...
 
 297.36 : '  -- but tourists have to connect the look of it
  back to things they remember from their time and planet '

JL
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 isaac's a soft name
 it sounds like a pocketful of rain.
 well up that stairway he rose
 and down that stairway he goes.
	           ( - paddy mcaloon )            
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