ATDTDA (18): 493-494 "captivated by eyes"

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

           Cometman:
            >  words that could just as easily be monosylabic and
            > in use as an accepted part of common parlance 

        c'mon, that's like faulting Charlie Parker for using
        too many notes...

. . . .or Mozart, though truth to tell, po-mo lit/crit usually comes off like 
Anthony Braxton's or Milton Babbitt's warming up exercises. I'm of the view
that Yardbird didnt get the chance to play enough notes. I mean, how much
lined parchment and goose quill got wasted in Telemann's effusive burblings?
Did Vivaldi really have to write the same concerto 1500 times? Just 
remember this: George Martin "wrote" much more music than Lennon or 
McCartney, and Hal Blaine is on more top ten singles than anyone else.

           Cometman: 
           my quarrel, if any, is it seems like he's going to say the
           Counterforce ISN'T really cool, when in fact it IS!
           I dread a "Coupland Gen-X@" moment 
           ie "gosh darn those hippie parents"

. . . .tell me all about it. . . .

           exemplary muckraker Sherman Skolnick (he and Joe Vialls are the TS
           Eliot and Ezra Pound* of muck, Skolnick's prose is more tortuous,
           whereas Vialls is easiest to accuse of anti-semitism - still they 
           were both geniuses) alleges that most of them were CIA agents 
           provocateur. . . .

Not my mom, she came by her provocation the old fashioned way—she was born 
ornery.

           Ajaxman:
           if you don't like Skolnick -- are you paranoid enough?

What if I am paranoid enough, and still don't like 'em?

           Bon Ami:
           William Kunstler had been with the
           predecessor agency to CIA, namely OSS.

Well, that settles it! I'm never gonna watch another episode of Law & Order!!!

*With their memories in a trunk?