Also here, but I still don't understand this post.
Perhaps its interrogation is in order!
The definitive comment on "gesture" comes from Clive James. Maybe it's also an interrogation of literary studies, if so it's an awfully rough one.
That's awesome, baa. I say, entirely without sarcasm, that it makes me smile for humanity that someone would take the time to write that, just to mock other people. I love civilization!
"Galumphing", though evocative of the bouncer's heavyset approach, has been glossed by no less an authority than Humpty-Dumpty to mean "galloping triumphantly", and so doesn't really make sense in context.
I'm glad you think so, ogged! This was my exact response too -- I felt myself in the presence of a true jewel of creation.
w-lfs-n, shouldn't you be employed at an I-bank by now?
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Oh man, I love "The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered".