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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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