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[David Morris]

Something of a touché for the nearly elderly, alas.

On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> touche!
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
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> On May 6, 2016, at 12:23 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog
>
> "*The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog*" is an English-language
> pangram <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram>—a phrase
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase> that contains all of the letters
> of the alphabet <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet>. It is
> commonly used for touch-typing practice. It is also used to test
> typewriters <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter> and computer
> keyboards <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard>, show fonts
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font>, and other applications involving
> all of the letters in the English alphabet. Owing to its brevity and
> coherence, it has become widely known.
>
> On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','smoketeff at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> I dig your dog/fox reading, Laura. Dug it way more when I typed it up for
>> the first ever message sent out to the Plist.
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 5, 2016, at 10:58 PM, "kelber at mindspring.com" <
>> kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> No one responded to my earlier comment about Spectro and his Fox being a
>> set up for "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Why is the dog
>> lazy? Because it takes years of testing, conditioning, measuring, etc.
>> before it gives out any information. Spector's human fox is quick because
>> it just takes one shot of the truth serum Pointsman is hankering to use on
>> Slothrop, and it (he/she) blabs big time.
>>
>> Spectro seems to be experimenting on traumatized soldiers and civilians (
>> I think the kids mentioned are just part of Pointsman's fantasy). He
>> injects them with serum so they can revisit and talk about their trauma.
>> But is it serum therapy for the traumatized or testing the ability of the
>> serum to get people to talk?
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>>
>>
>> Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> I like stouts, have no taste for IPAs. I’m glad for the IPA makers that
>> someone likes them. I like people who like IPAs, but they taste like
>> someone stirred in acetone to me. Maybe I have Irish chemistry. I don’t
>> know, but words will not change this .
>>
>> Anyone else up for a group read of a masterpiece or is this project going
>> up in smoke?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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