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   Cujo DeSockpuppet to HarryLime   
   Re: Newest proof that Zu-Bolton was neve   
   13 Feb 26 16:30:41   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   news:ACOdnRjDpcc8rxL0nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   >>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   >>> news:tdednca6TM0eMRP0nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>> Our pals in law enforcement raided the Donkey Hovel to take more   
   >>>> pictures.  See attached, which proves that the "introduction"   
   >>>> supposedly from Zu-Bolton was not a part of "Pegasus," and that   
   >>>> Will Donkey was aware of the Zu-Bolton repudiation letter.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Bad Donkey.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Once again, the Donkey has been snagged.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Bad, bad Donkey.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes, and Will Donkey continues to deny the fraud that he is   
   >>>> perpetuating.  As an editor for ~38 years, what is your opinion of   
   >>>> the Pegasus publication?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I feel compelled to qualify my opinion by noted that I have only   
   >>>> seen two pages, and the front cover, of the magazine.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The cover features a line drawing of a winged horse.  It's a   
   >>>> fitting, of hardly imaginative, cover.  The horse looks about like   
   >>>> what one would expect from a high school student.  It's easily   
   >>>> recognizable as a horse, although its body was obviously not   
   >>>> sketched from life.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Introduction (which purports to be by Zu-Bolton) matches the   
   >>>> cover in that it is... adequate.  It is divided into three parts.   
   >>>> The first presents a whimsical tale relating how Pegasus left   
   >>>> Greece to take up residence in Columbus, GA.  It reads like what it   
   >>>> is... filler.  The second opens with the bizarre statement that the   
   >>>> "post-sputnik age has produced the most literate generation of all   
   >>>> time."  One wonders what the author was smoking.  The third part is   
   >>>> an admission that he has had no hand in the production of the   
   >>>> magazine, knows nothing about it, and has thoroughly kept his   
   >>>> distance from it.  He closes with a cliched and stereotypically   
   >>>> upbeat "observation" that the students represented in "Pegasus" are   
   >>>> reaching for the stars.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Introduction is set up in the form of a typewritten letter   
   >>>> (which it most likely was).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The one page of the actual content which I seen features the poem   
   >>>> "Shatt Rd," by our own Will Donkey (who assures that the actual   
   >>>> title was "Shattered."  The poem is... awful.  It's full of all the   
   >>>> compositional errors that Will Donkey continues to make today.   
   >>>> Obviously, no attempt to proofread, or edit the poem in any way,   
   >>>> had been made.  It's accompanied by a pen and crayon drawing of   
   >>>> some sort of fanciful cartoon animal.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The cartoon animal is the best thing I have seen in the magazine so   
   >>>> far... and it's just a generic character vaguely reminiscent of   
   >>>> Albert the Alligator.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On the whole, it looks like a magazine that was put together by a   
   >>>> bunch of high school kids.  The inclusion of a Will Donkey poem   
   >>>> automatically brings down the quality of any magazine (and it's the   
   >>>> only poem I've seen in this one), but one supposes that the   
   >>>> school-imposed rules stipulated that anyone who contributes a poem   
   >>>> must be included.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The misspelling of "Shattered," as "Shatt Rd," however, is   
   >>>> unacceptable -- even for a student publication.  Either the editors   
   >>>> didn't care what they were typing -- or Will Donkey had handed them   
   >>>> a barely legible, handwritten copy, and they were left to guess at   
   >>>> what he'd written.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm sure that it briefly graced the doors of many local kitchen   
   >>>> refrigerators.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It's also lined many birdcages and wrapped many smelly fish.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> It has also lined many a lie from William Donkey.  The "Shatt Rd"   
   >> poem wasn't in the Pegasus POS.  It, by Donkey's own admission, was   
   >> written on August 20, 1976 and published in Carverlite in March of   
   >> 1977.  Ahmos Zu-Bolton and the few readers of Pegasus would not have   
   >> seen that horrible poem.  For some nefarious reason, Donkey has   
   >> redacted the year of the poem on the scan. We wonder if the color   
   >> cartoon on the page was hand-colored by Donkey, since there were no   
   >> color copying machines in 1977.   
   >>   
   >> Therefore, we have seen only two purported "pages" of Pegasus:  the   
   >> cover and the fraudulent letter that wasn't written by Ahmos   
   >> Zu-Bolton.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > OMFG!  You're right!   
   >   
   > I had thought Pegasus a professionally printed magazine because the   
   > Alfred the Alligator cartoon would have required color separation.   
   > Now, it looks like it was simply a collection of photocopied   
   > typewritten pages.   
   >   
   > I also have to wonder if the Donkey was in Pegasus at all.   
   >   
   > It's beginning to look like this whole thing has just been one big   
   > scam to "prove" that some nobody of a poet sat in on Dan Barfly's   
   > class?   
   >   
   > Pathetic.   
      
   The lies never stop with Dreckweasel.   
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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