From: mrx@sgi.com (tabula rasa)
Subject: more on truth
Message-ID: <jfhgfl4@zola.esd.sgi.com>
Organization: imprints 'r' us
References: <ceejCAxyv5.I7x@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 22:39:57 GMT
In article <ceejCAxyv5.I7x@netcom.com> ceej@netcom.com (C J Silverio) writes:
"Truth in a talk.bizarre posting," said ceejay sententiously,
"is rather like leaven in bread. A small quantity of truth
blows a crude mass of bald & unconvincing narrative into a
pleasantly shaped loaf of verisimilitude that says something
or other deep about the Human Condition."
truth in a talk.bizarre posting is like
the lubricating agent in a complex mechanical
device. without it, the gears tend to grind,
the pistons squeal, and the entire frame
shakes without moving the mechanism ahead
a single iota.
the tiniest droplet of truth spreads through
the innards of the work, coating it with
a slippery sheen that allows it to ease up
smoothly on its spindly spider-legs and launch
forward to trample the women and children, maim
the burly men who would stand in its path, and
copulate with the livestock in a manner entirely
unspeakable.
mr x
what i look for, anyhow