From: Charles Dickens (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 06:53:42 PST
My dear Mr Farmer,
There is nothing better I can do than forward to you the message of
Professor Newsom:
Please not to pay attention to this silliness. As everybody knows, Mr.
Hyde is an evil character in a novella by a gentleman you do not have the
pleasure of knowing, Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Professor Robert Newsom, Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2650 U S A
Phone:(949) 824-6744 Internet: rnewsom@uci.edu
My amenuensis, Dr David Parker, a worthy fellows, assures me there is no
better advice to be had than that supplied by Professor Newsom.
Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Jeffrey S. Farmer wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey S. Farmer <af369@ACORN.NET>
To: BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: 26 December 1998 22:53
Subject: Humbug in the Pickwickian sense?
>Dear Mr. Dickens,
>
>Have you, by chance, been following the impeachment proceedings in the
>U.S. House of Representatives? If you have, perhaps you are aware that
>the House Judiciary Committee (the committee that drafted and voted out
>articles of impeachment for consideration by the whole House) is chaired
>by a portly, white haired, kindly, yet rather opinionated gentleman from
>Illinois named Henry Hyde. Henry Hyde (I say, although I do not know the
>man) is a humbug. That is, if one accepts, as a principle, that all
>politicians are humbugs, and acknowledges, as a matter of fact, that
>Henry Hyde is a politician, it follows that Henry Hyde is a humbug. The
>question is, what sort of humbug? Is he a humbug in the ordinary sense,
>or in the Pickwickian sense? How does one tell the difference?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Jeff Farmer
>Stow, Ohio, USA
>
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