POMO MO and Curly

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Fri Oct 8 15:32:55 CDT 1999


"Derek C. Maus" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Derek, by why attack me personally. Calling me
> > Bennett is a real insult.
> 
> Like I said in the original, it wasn't meant ot be an attack, it just
> sounded more like Bennett than Kermode, who actually can be fairly lucid
> and compelling when he wants to be. *Anyway*, you can't really be much
> like William Bennett, since he doesn't like Pynchon.
> 
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> Derek C. Maus               | "What am I opposed to tell my customers?"
> dmaus at email.unc.edu         | Swearingen said. "'Sorry, Washington says
> UNC-CH, Dept. of English    | no more fanny packs for you; time to spend
> http://www.unc.edu/~dmaus/  | your money on great works of literature'?
>                             | It doesn't work that way."   --THE ONION
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------


I'm wrong here. You've been a gentleman here. My apologies
to all.



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