COLGR49: "ha, ha"

Doug Millison DMillison at ftmg.net
Wed Aug 1 14:18:20 CDT 2001


Good stuff about Jarry, thanks.

Hard to beat the French for eccentric writers. One of my favorites is Gerard
de Nerval -- whose Sylvie and Les filles du feu deserve to be read -- who is
said to have kept a lobster as a pet and walked it on a leash through Paris.
Why?  Because it is silent and knows the secrets of the deep, is the way I
remember the quote.  'Scuse me while I kiss this guy....



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