Meanwhile back in the day, Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

How many times have you read the opening chapter? More than the full reads,
right?
I have again and P embeds so much therein.

Q: Have the cast of Chums been compared to
Melville's Pequod crew? Matched with characters measure for measure?
Bet it would be interesting. As with Melville, and most novelists, some
American types seem to be implied.

Meanwhile, they are all young, eternally so since they live in fiction.
Which can go in and out
of history as they can. They do not live in time.

Darby gets criticized for his sloppy grammar as we see the vulgarization of
established language usage.
Informality takes over, the democratization of language. Or as Nietzsche
said, if god is dead, so is grammar.

Pugnax, domesticated pisser. The favorite pet of the bourgeoise.