Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 12:56:29 -0500
From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: PLC: la de dah [was]Your inquiry about Stirling


g wrote:

>Well! That's easy for you to say. You apparently have not spent the last
>month sleeping on your back and keeping close to walls ever vigilant for
>jack-booted A&M corpsmen (the seniors actually wear spurs on their Patton
>style riding boots and, ahem, brown uniforms),lead by crypto-scout leaders,
>grabbing their crotches (they really do that too, at football games) whilst
>yelling "Myers forever."
>
>I hope it is _at least_ a giggle.

Shades of T.E. Lawrence! The Turks are acoming to teach g boy what's 
what, when giggling's all that's left of dignified gentility after jackbooting, 
that literary dissimulation of overcivilizing the beastly infidels, professing
scout's honor.

TE never quite recovered from ravagement either, dear, dear boy, g, presuming
that Pillars was not just wishful dreaming of what might have been. Damn that
romantic, heroic, comedic, is it h-or-h erotic?, prevariacative literature,
you just 
never know for sure who's bragging or begging, inflate conquests- 
submissions-wise.

Still, the Boy Scouts/12th Man get it about right, didn't they, the toyness of 
honor and duty amidst good fellowship dissimulation of what mortal combat's 
truly like -- not a giggle but a scream?



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