Humorous goings-on

Martin Hinks mhinks at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 04:16:31 CDT 2006


An addition to the P Wikipedia article that was swiftly reverted:

Well, this is the story all about how  	
I turned the American novel upside down 	
And I'd like to take a minute from this universal schism 	
to tell you how I invented literary post-modernism 	
In Glen Clove, Long Island, born and raised 	
At Cornell University is where I spent my college days, 	
Learnin' physics and sailin', mostly goofin' off 	
Occasionally taking classes taught by Nabokov 	
When the spectre of the government, which was up to bad shit, 	
Started making trouble in my social clique, 	
They crashed my best friend's bike and I went AWOL 	
And said "It's time to explore the nature of humanity's desire for
control!"
I wrote Gravity's Rainbow, and when it was released, 	
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times claimed that the
traditional structure of the metanarrative was deceased!
If anything, secrecy was the souce of my élan, 	
but I thought, "Nah, f-forget it! Fickt nicht mit Rocketman!"

(For those who don't know the tune it is Will Smith's The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air)

Anyone here responsible for this tomfoolery? :)

-- 
Martin Hinks
http://www.m-s-d.net




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