“Mister Smitty, what is you genealogy?”
“Prince of Cats, yo.”
(That Mister, speaking for the Smee, once played Tybalt, yo.)
(That Mister, speaking for the Smee, once played Tybalt, yo.)
“Egyptian? Like the Sphinxes?
“French? Comme les Garcons?”
“Les chats, puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison…”
[sorry to interrupt again – this is the “ed,” yo – but we must bow to the weight of allusions and references by footnoting, glossing, hyperlinking --
(N.B.: is “hyperlinking” a bygone fad word that faded? When I say it to my students they chuckle – like it’s as dusty as “groovy” but without the cache of well-used authenticity)
And where is the Smitty in all of this, we ask? Please object to such blatant literary allusion-makings by writing your congressman – or webmaster. And while you’re at it, object to the intrusiveness of the “eds,” too, yo!]
[sorry to interrupt again – this is the “ed,” yo – but we must bow to the weight of allusions and references by footnoting, glossing, hyperlinking --
(N.B.: is “hyperlinking” a bygone fad word that faded? When I say it to my students they chuckle – like it’s as dusty as “groovy” but without the cache of well-used authenticity)
And where is the Smitty in all of this, we ask? Please object to such blatant literary allusion-makings by writing your congressman – or webmaster. And while you’re at it, object to the intrusiveness of the “eds,” too, yo!]
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