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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