[lit-ideas] Re: On the Prose Peck/Stirling
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:26:52 -0700
On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
Parody doesn't count. Nor does sniping. If Lawrence is an ex-Marine
and Steve a vagabond, for example, neither should refer to the other
as "old Leatherneck" or "amoral bum."
Only David Ritchie is allowed to insult people, and then only by
acrostic.
Sound like a plan?
Insulting people, even in prophesy and with leaves from the Sibyl (see
Wikipedia on "acrostic"), is a stretch for my persona, which saves ire
like a senior management parking spot; it's reserved for deans only.
Erin should be sure to climb the Wallace monument and take a gander at
William's sword. My reading of the scholarship on the subject says
this could not possibly have been Wallace's sword--Wallace pre-dates
the earliest example of this type of sword by about two hundred
years--but don't bother trying to tell anyone the facts; the force of
myth in the tower...and a' that. Skip the brewery further up the
valley, on the road to Perth. Horrible beer.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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