I was standing at one of those computers on the first floor of the Reg, checking my email (I know, shocking-- me, checking my email) when a big Indian guy comes up and yells at me: "I don't know who that guy is." He proceeds to tell me that his screen name was bjmick (or some variant of that spelling), and that that sounds like a porn name. Then he wants to know why everyone hates Winnie the Pooh. The moral of this story: I have to get out of the Reg. I think I'm going crazy.
A Cool Web of Language
There's a cool web of language weaves us in,
Retreat from too much joy and too much fear:
We grow sea-green at least and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
--Robert Graves
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