Penguin-Holt-Penguin
Tim Strzechowski
dedalus204 at comcast.net
Wed Aug 2 17:24:55 CDT 2006
I don't profess to understand FW any more than the next reader, but its
style washes over you and can be quite beautiful after you've been reading a
few hours.
Plus, the wordplay is fun merely for its abundance of potential band names
or album titles:
uniswoon
Sin Showpanza
by the wrath of Bog
dulsy nayer
Blott
A bad attack of maggott
gameboy
magic fluke
The Mod needs a rebus
friskly shorties
tragic jester
oh, the list goes on ...
> I
> can understand FW-bashing, as there is very little if any hope of a
> reader ever understanding it without an external book teaching them
> how to do so, if in fact after reading that guide they bother to look
> to the original text at all. I can see how people might have qualms
> with that.
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