SLSL Intro "Our Common Nightmare"
William Zantzinger
williamzantzinger at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 23 23:29:35 CST 2002
--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "GOD damn you all to hell, " but ...
>
> --- William Zantzinger <williamzantzinger at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > "Damn them all to hell!"
> > Planet of the Apes
>
> Unless, of course, yr talking new skool Apes. But
> why
> would anyone want to? Okay, back to work ...
W: Damn ain't a curse, Mom, it's what beavers make.
M: If you say that word one more time I'll wash your
mouth out with soap!
W: Beaver! Beaver! Beaver!
Here comes the Ivory.
Damn, Should have run that through my
spell/grammar/fact/quotation/citation/style/ checker
program.
And that hundered years of attitude poem too.
Here's how it works:
drag two metal ignots round
[sp]
revise misspelled word (ingots)
demagnatize the sacred ground
[sp]
revise misspelled word (demagnetize)
pull down the pot, the pan,
the brazier,
the brush the bowl and Occam's razor
[sp]
revise misterspelled word (Ockham's)
Let us pray.
Barthelmismo, Miasmismo, Barthelmismo.
We believe in Ignatz, Krazy Kat, the Brick, maker of
Hartz & Pure Weener white hot dogs and Tina Turner
action figures, of all that is buried in New Jersey,
seen and unseen.
We believe in one Word, given us by Big Bird,
ABC-DEF-GHI-JKL-MNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ, the most remarkable
word we've never heard or seen. We reject Lucy, Fur,
Starbucks, PepsiCo, traditional chronology, plot, Boy
Bands, cruelty to laboratory rats and space monkeys,
character, time, space, grammar, syntax, Muppets,
metaphor, and simile, as well as the ampersand between
fact & fiction. We refute time, space, and the
structure of language. We believe in the community
Aints in the OED
We give thanks and praise for the disjointed drivel of
lunatics and children under three. We believe in
Ironist. For us and for our salvation he came to save
us from drowning in a world flooded with universals.
By the power of Marketing he materialized from the
carnage of The Dynamo and was made Brand.
For our sake Ironist was literalized under Punctuated
Punctiliousness, Strunk, died and was buried in New
Jersey. But look for his resurrection in our heads, in
the poetry of Gearóid Mac Lochlainn and in the life of
the world to cum. Eamon.
Ok, back to twirling my cane round my diamond ringed
finger.
WZ
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