(np) another dorky, dorky, dorky...

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 16:36:06 CST 2011


a romp thru memories of 60s and 70s literature!
http://www.litkicks.com/SummerOfLove

1974 was a good year, and not just because Nixon resigned in August.
The year brought two late-period hippie classics: first, "The Fan Man"
by William Kotzwinkle, which has more fun with language than any book
since Burgess's "Clockwork Orange", and introduces the highly useful
phrase that goes something like this:

"Another dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky day"


-- 
"It is only by abandoning the cliches that we can even define the
tragedy" - William Appleman Williams (_Tragedy of American Diplomacy_)



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