General TP Reading Question (extremely silly)

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 19 14:42:22 CDT 2007


--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> This is shameless showing off (sometimes I indulge
> in this), but at the moment I'm reading seven
> books in seven different languages....

Sure, I ouldn't mind being multilingual as well, but I
can still at least read, say, math as well.  Nadsat. 
Some elvish (but no dwarvish, and no Klingon).  Jack
Kirby.  I think that all counts ...

> However there is one factor which keeps my ego in
> check ...

> ... [but] I will never read Pynchon the way
> you Americans do, so it cuts both ways.

Yer darn tootin', tovarich.  Course, we don't read him
the way you do, or the Australians, or the Germans, or
... or the way each other of us does, for that matter,
so ... so thak God (or whoever) this here Infonet
contraption is American, else I wouldn't understand
even that much ...

Patriotically ...

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