Endorsing Martin's comment...
the historical thread comes through strongly,
the wit is everywhere and genial,
and the ekphrastic aspect stimulates this reader...
Max in Melbourne
Quoting Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>:
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> From: "Martin Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: "A Job for Captain Entropy"
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> Disconcertingly funny, Fred, I really like this threesome. I get the feeling
> of a complex background - that I can only guess at - but the main thing is
> the way it engenders that deprecatory tone, those unsettlingly recognizable
> phrases & cadences. I love the combined Shelley/Saussure crack, and that
> throwaway "despite recurrence". In a universe strangely like our own a
> drillion gigabytes away...
> mj
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> Thanks, Martin! Very glad of this response.
>
> I had fun imagining Captain Entropy himself, with his emblem like the day's
> Dow Jones ...
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