Ah, a great adventure indeed, Hal, & for the reader too, following in
the footsteps, so to speak....
'murky history,' indeed....
Doug
On 19-Sep-07, at 5:45 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Sonnet: Adventures on the Hippocampus
>
> Around noontime, we landed on the hippocampus, when squirrels
> were hungry, leaping from the tree branches down onto the arms
> of passersby, snatching away peanut butter sandwiches from them
> and biting, often, the hands that held them, snacks between classes.
>
> By lunchtime, we could usually no longer remember what we’d had
> for breakfast, and yet were almost certain that we had had something.
> Memories clouded by . . . well, by eleven o’clock at the latest, unless
> a skill at finding shortcuts helped us all become better taxi drivers.
>
> Subcortical inputs rushed around the campus—heads with their
> chickens cut off, by Talibansters with scimiters where their iPods
> should have been. Counterdemonstrations by Students Against
> Islamic Knowledge disrupted both pep rallies and frat hazings.
>
> But, by late afternoon, this often murky history has had its sense of
> relevance restored, on its way to class (Brachiation 101—elective).
>
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> Hal
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