From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   news:eiWdnbu4hLg58RL0nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Professionally printed?"  "Shirley," you jest!  It must have just   
   >> been copied or mimeographed onto colored papers, folded and stapled.   
   >> Badly.  We question that the Alfred the Alligator cartoon figure   
   >> "DAKI" is original to the Carverlite issue, since Daki is a character   
   >> in Demon Slayer (2016).  The alligator/Daki has no connection with   
   >> Will Donkey's "poem," and it looks like it was colored in with   
   >> markers.  The "(Carverlite March 77)" caption was written in by hand.   
   >>   
   >> How many more lies does Will Donkey think that he can perpetuate?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > If a 1976 magazine included full color artwork, it would have to have   
   > been taken to a printer's for color separation.  That doesn't mean   
   > that the magazine looks like a professional quality publication.   
   >   
   > Of course, NancyGene has now shown that the color artwork (the Albert   
   > the Alligator clone) was actually from another publication, and that   
   > the color was provided after the fact (courtesy of the Donkey and a   
   > box of Crayola Crayons), so I officially retract my former statement.   
   >   
   > The moral of the story is that one should *never* believe anything a   
   > Donkey posts... even if it's a photograph.   
      
   I believe he has a snaggletoof. I saw the picture.   
      
   --   
   "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   
      
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