- hi; in article,
<
5aaaee83-27d5-4f1e...@googlegroups.com>,
rja.ca...@excite.com "Robert Carnegie" conceded:
> Walter Bushell wrote:
>> Robert Carnegie <
rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>>>portrays a cautious lady with a dinner date being sewn
>>>into her clothes beforehand.
>>What makes a dinner date different that a regular date and
>>why would having fruit sewn into her clothes protect her?
>
>I do not know where to begin, here - which I guess means that
>you win this round. Well played!
- fie, sir! is *this* displaying the spirit that won the
empire upon which the sun never set? have the creative
well-springs of the thriving (if sometimes somewhat insal-
ubrious) transportees and colonials finally run dry? does
insufficient invention inhere from the admixture of innumer-
able immigrant and native cultures, for theoretically poss-
ible, and even perhaps credible, explicatory proposals to
be conjured out of thin (or thick) air and perchance add a
touch of storytelling worthy of the dreamtime? (- [a])
- suggested tack one: a dinner date may/may not/should/
should not be stoned, or unstoned;
- potential elaboration: dates may be blind, double, dutch -
or any permutation or combination thereof;
- possible precautionary note: some fruits, though described
as excellent, or even divine, gustatorily,
are nevertheless represented as repugnant
to the point of provoking involuntary and
sometimes projectile regurgitation, when
experienced olfactorally; e.g. the durian (iirc)
- what plausible madnesses mayn't be manufactured from such and
similar matters, mutters and nutters' mottos, motets and motifs?
- love, ppint.
[a] - other areas on the edges of empire - or over the edge of
the world - offer equally fertile ground: lost oases, the
yeti of tibet, the north-west passage, the mystery of the
bermondsey triangle, the thuggi, the disappearance of the
ninth legion, the nuts, ground, (other than ground nuts)
scheme, and fruits de mer include those barytic behemoths
that are denizens of the deeps; cthulhu among the kalimari
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
"What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three
questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer
in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant,
which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable
which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in
an unknown tongue." "Guyal of Sfere", _The Dying Earth_- Jack Vance