SHhhhhhhhhhhhiiii

jporter jp4321 at IDT.NET
Mon Jul 31 18:11:40 CDT 2000



> From: "J Suete" <jsuete at postmaster.co.uk>

            [snip a whole shit load of stuff]

> 
> Shit can be holy, like holy shit means wow dudes.
> 
> Pudding:  Melville's "Poor Man's Pudding" is shit, a poor man's wife bakes the
> shit and a wealthy man eats it. Now what does that tell you about Melville's
> sex life? 
> 
> 

The Pudding-Melville connection is reprised in M&D in the line crossing
ceremony, re: "Spotted Dick" thrown in Cherrycoke's face, along with some
submerged references to early atomic theory (Rutherford's? "Raisin Pudding"
model of the atom), finally superceded by quantum theory- which has turned
out to be some really WEIRD shit.

jody




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