That's awesome, baa. I say, entirely without sarcasm, that it makes me smile for humanity that someone would take the time to write that, just to mock other people. I love civilization!
"Galumphing", though evocative of the bouncer's heavyset approach, has been glossed by no less an authority than Humpty-Dumpty to mean "galloping triumphantly", and so doesn't really make sense in context.
Also here, but I still don't understand this post.
Perhaps its interrogation is in order!
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 11:57 AM
The definitive comment on "gesture" comes from Clive James. Maybe it's also an interrogation of literary studies, if so it's an awfully rough one.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 12:14 PM
no, it's not.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 12:28 PM
That's awesome, baa. I say, entirely without sarcasm, that it makes me smile for humanity that someone would take the time to write that, just to mock other people. I love civilization!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 1:47 PM
"Galumphing", though evocative of the bouncer's heavyset approach, has been glossed by no less an authority than Humpty-Dumpty to mean "galloping triumphantly", and so doesn't really make sense in context.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 2:00 PM
I'm glad you think so, ogged! This was my exact response too -- I felt myself in the presence of a true jewel of creation.
Wolfson, shouldn't you be employed at an I-bank by now?
Here's more
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 2:17 PM
Oh man, I love "The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-05 2:25 PM