> In news:d8i05v$bb2$0@pita.alt.net, Uncle Davey wrote:
> >> 11. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
> >
> > I don't know what you are talking about, although I am sure it is
> > fascinating.
> >
> > Care to elucidate?
>
> I must apologize but your beatiful and diverse list of topics seemed to me
> somewhat surreal, not unlike one of my favourite books which you might
> recognize by this slightly longer abstract:
>
> <quote>
>
> "Why me?" was his constant lament, and the question was a good one.
> Yossarian knew it was a good one because Yossarian was a collector of
> good questions and had used them to disrupt the educational sessions
> Clevinger had once conducted two nights a week in Captain Black's
> intelligence tent with the corporal in eyeglasses who everybody knew was
> probably a subversive. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he
> wore eyeglasses and used words like "panacea" and "utopia", and because he
> disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating
> un-American activities in Germany. Yossarian attended the education
> sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so
> hard to kill him. A handful of other men were also interested, and the
> questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal
> finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.
> "Who is Spain?"
> "Why is Hitler?"
> "When is right?"
> "Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call Poppa
> when the merry-go-round broke down?"
> "How was trump at Munich?"
> "Ho-ho beriberi."
> and
> "Balls!"
> all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the
> question that had no answer:
> "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"
> The question upset them, because Snowden had been killed over Avignon
> when Dobbs went crazy in mid-air and seized the controls away from Huple.
> The corporal played it dumb. "What?" he asked.
> "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"
> "I'm afraid I don't understand."
> "Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?" Yossarian said to make it easier for
> him.
>
> </quote>
>
> Hania
>
Aha. My gut reaction was Catch 22, but I didn't see how it could have been
that.
While thinking of the Heller hypothesis, I wondered whether you were
likening me to Snowden or something.
The list of topics is a technique used by radio phone in hosts to get
conversation going, by the way.
I'm just doing like a Robbie Vincent impersonation.
Uncle Davey
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