I have studied you meticulously and haphazardedly........

You are not flesh as I originally thought... YOu are a bot or some sort or other....

Yet you exude confidence.... You beguile most... even myself for a moment... But underneath that plastic lifelikenss of yours.. theere lies a yearning... a soul ill at ease..

Your mysteries are unfathomably infinitely...... to remain mysteries..

I bow in humble awe... as I back away.... fearing.... for my very own eternal soul.......

(enemy at the gates)..

I might as well have turned the gun against myself!

Is there a website that shows the players and cross tables?

Be sure to give us a report!!

OK right now I'm so happy I'm leaping up and down in my apartment.

I have read your last few day's posts carefully and I will be responding at great length soon.

I just have to finish analyzing the last game I played today on <Yahoo> and I'll be with you.

<deerslayer888> : Why is your ID name "deerslayer"?

I'm quite curious. My older brother is an avid deer hunter.

And I hope you guys have a blast and play some mad chess too.

I'd like nothing more than to join you.

I dearly hope I can find a job in Europe next year.

Korea is charming- to say the least-

Oh, do!

One does not pursue tabloidesque enquiries into the peccadilloes of one's democratically-elected rulers. Even if they turn out to be hyperduliacs and horse rustlers.

Unless one works for Murdoch, of course, a whole nother kettle of spineless aunt-eaters. Such people may not technically be scum, but if you throw them in water they'll congeal into a greasy, frothy film on the surface. And they carry designer scumbags by Goochie & Vespoochie.

Anyway, you asked: <we love you to bits mate; thats our problem, what's yours? just asking...>

I don't actually *have* any problems. Apart from a book of Merediths, White to play and mate in two, which hardly qualifies.

Certain actions, habits, conditions, substances and tropisms for which I have a liking are regarded as 'problems' by the medical-industrial establishment. But that's *their* problem, not mine.

Impertinence is cool too, btw. As long as it's pertinent impertinence.

It has often been said that the United States of America was itself an Illuminati plot -- see Thomas Pynchon or Ishmael Reed, for instance. Not to mention the pyramid + eye on the dollar bill.

By this logic -- and illuminati logic gets pretty tangled -- my Eye avatar proclaims allegiances to a non-Egyptian faction (no pyramid).

My old friend Robert Anton Wilson -- he died last year, as far as I can tell: a previous death report on the net turned out to be an exaggeration -- wrote extensively on the topic (*The Illuminati Papers*, consisting of fictionalized (?) pieces - articles, stories, poems, essays on Finnegans Wake and quantum physics, is particularly good.)

You also mention *whiteshark*. In a sense, he's my anti-matter alter ego. I'm usually on his Iggy List (see: Ignore Function) so I can't communicate directly with him. We've been around here roughly the same amount of time. He made a point of overtaking me recently to reach the 10,000 kibitzes (see: <databases statistics>) mark before me.

re Illuminati: CERN's LHC is such a thing - 20 years planing and after 10 days they need 2 months R&M - nothing compared to eternity.

If they don't find Higgs (of cource this anti-matter doesn't exist) will the universe collapse then?

...

YOu are like a modern indy car.......

Unable to be penetrated... You casually bounce off any variance....

You remain aloof... and every watching... You are much more canny that any fox I have ever dealth with.........

My favorite supervisor was Egyptian. he was the best man I ever knew ecept for my father...,.... regale me.......

You are a product of your environment... Your education exudes from you....

I myselflll a miserly... MBA..... yet remain in awe of your vernacular abilitties....

If only I could peentrate and capture the knowledghe.... I would easily sacrfice you.... It's all there isn't it!!!!!!???

You madden me.... yet calm me.....

I know that I can no long3er stand your beguiling ways... YOu stare.... yet kindly smile...

Your wisdom is intfinitely entwined... in the universe's.. excitement!!!

Ok one at a time:

<Have you read the Nelson-era seafaring novels of Patrick O'Brian? No relation to Flann, since both are pseudonyms.

I haven't read any but people say they're good. And Pynchon has a joke about a Midshipman O'Brian in Mason & Dixon.

Pints? We shall see. Galway has the best cheap noodle restaurant in Europe - though you'd possibly prefer a humble potato with your Guinness by this stage.>

Heh- are those the <Horatio Hornblower> novels? I read every one when I was in Primary School- I loved them and Horatio was a big hero.

I liked how they never actually ever said "Napoleon"-- they always called hem <The Tyrant>....

This may be heresy in <frogspawn>, but I think Lord Nelson and all did a fine job of putting the Frog in his place.

THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A <1.c4>!!!

No, you don't. Not in this respect at any rate.

It's the <Emperor's Nude Clothes> phenomenon.

In my opinion, the true badge of intellectual honesty at school was the ability to say that <Last Year at Marienbad> was the <Last> movie you'd ever want to have to attempt to sit through without a sack full of smuggled ales.

That said, <Mon Oncle d'Amerique> is hlarious.

Also, <Tarkovsky> films "scan" a lot better if you get really blocked up first.

How can I see this fabled lost <Alan Greenspanaway> film <The Fall of the House of Rushmore>?

Can I order it from the Internet?

Will they deliver it to Korea?

Last night I dreamt I was conscripted by the South Korean army to fight against North Korea.

Are you suggesting that <Anthony Hopkins> is a transvestite?

BTW the feeling is mutual.

<OK right now I'm so happy I'm leaping up and down in my apartment.> Careful, now. For every action there is an equal and opposite <other thing>. In this case, I think the planet anti-spirals away from the sun, and everyone simultaneosly laughs out loud. Expect a run on earplugs.

<Hannibal> I forget the exact contect but it ain't transvestism. In Silence of the Lambs - Lector is still a Prisoner - and he says "People will say we're in love" to Starling.

"Hark, the herald angels sing,
Mrs Simpson's pinched our King."

What's it about? Marge and Homer go Windsor? Your 'son' passing through a rural US base en route to invade Ruritania -- President Palin wants their moose pipeline -- 'pinches' a chesspiece in the airport and is sentenced to transportation to the colonies, and all your descendants are Tazzies? Or Edward VIII and the sexual prowess of his then mistress, aka 'the abdication crisis'?

- Aye, but will they come when you do call for 'em?

Shakespeare's Henry IV part I: Glendower gets taken down a notch by Hotspur.

Narratologically, a rare case of inverse prolepsis -- the indicated event 'comes true' within the narrative, but nobody dares talk about it.>

Right now I'm putting on some vivaldi -- like Greenaway with those annoying naked people -- and trying to catch up on my sleep.

Hour after Hour I painstakingly stroked her..... She ridiculed and cajoled me... but I egged on....

Finally I had her.... She was pinned.. and she was mine.......

Her eyes, wide open,,,,, she happily....accepted "Madame Lerecamier".... and I was forced to concede.....her.

The anguish.....!!!!!!!
unbearable...