The Great American Novel

 

Q:  Frank Norris said the great American novel is not extinct, like the dodo, but mythical, like the hippogriff.

 

A:  It’s not a novel it’s a blog.

 

Q:  I have to admit you posted Cultural Operator online, daily, and replied to reader comment, in the book.

 

A:  And it’s shaped like a novel.

      It has a plot and characters, a setting and a theme.

 

Q:  You call it a picaresque, a diatribe, an agony in eight fits.

 

A:  The snark was a boojum, you see.

      Tweedledum and Tweedledee were dirty old men who had designs on Alice.

 

 

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      I get business cards like that in the mail.  From friends.

      Money & mail-art don’t mix.

      I get a cloisonné Kurt Schwitters Centennial Merz pin in the mail from a reader.

 

 

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