More re Toto

Richard Romeo richardromeo at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 21 13:13:15 CDT 1999



>
>      Romeo, Romeo:
>
>      >it would be extremely interesting if toto was a norfolk terrier
>
>      Stop that, Pynchon-loving revisionist!  Toto was a Cairn
>      terrier--Cairns are extremely cute, intelligent and fearsome to all
>      vermin--and don't you forget it!
>
>      Now.  As far as that Toto-basher Rushdie's derogations are
>      concerned--as a breed, Cairns are known for gentleness, goddammit!  I
>      am sure the much put-upon Toto, ENSLAVED, I will remind you, in a
>      "stable" of movie dogs to the grossly animal-abusive capitalist
>      entertainment industry, was justified in whatever nips she took from
>      the backsides of those drunken Munchkins.  She probably spent
>      countless nights dreaming of the rocky cairns of her ancestral
>      homeland somewhere on the Isle of Skye...muffled rrrruffs...twitching
>      paws...she's a hero, the lone hunter, on her solitary, longing,
>      phantom quest in the foggy night of the...Dread.  Scottish.  BADGER.
>      Rrrruff!
>
>      kissy kiss kiss,
>
>      ck
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well, I was close--maybe distant cousin to the LED...

rich
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