Does it really matter who does what in Amsterdam coffeehouse? Mine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 13:42:55 +1000 From: Rob Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:19846] Re: "funny" dough I think Doug is more the American Lit. man, Barkley. Hawthorne, mebbe. I can see a red-eyed Doug teetering on the coffeehouse steps, regaling the passing throngs with 'Ethan Brand Goes To Wall St' ... "What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the retrenched bluecollar; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered. 'It is a sin that grew within our besuited breasts,' replied besuited Brand, standing erect with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp. 'A sin that grew nowhere else! The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood and reverence for the C that must abide between M1 and M2, and sacrificed a workforce that for a moment interest rate projections might slacken! The only sin that deserves a recompense of immortal recession!" Let 'em have it, Doug! Er, while I get back to the #!* marking ... Rob. ---------- > From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:19832] "funny" dough > Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:33:46 -0400 > > I've been trying to imagine what Doug Henwood >would be like after going to a "funny" coffeehouse >in Amsterdam. Would he spout poetry by Byron, >Shelley, and Wordsworth? Or would he start to mumble >incoherently about all kinds of obscure financial data? > I think he might become poetic and combine the >two. I can see it now, a special poetic supplement to >the next issue of LBO: "Don Juan and the Databases" >(by Doug Henwood), :-). >Barkley Rosser >
