If you love language you’ll put the Online Etymology Dictionary in your Favorites. Start with:http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=p&p=13
Then try "petard" and see where "hoisted by one’s own petard" originated. Give you a hint: the guy who(probably) used it first wrote some plays. Another hint: My father once scoffed at this guy’s work, saying, "He just strings together a bunch of quotes we’ve heard before."
My father had a dry wit.
Part Seven. Odds and ends. This section includes updates on my life, plus what I know of Lisa’s, what’s going on now at Pavones, and some cut stuff from the book that doesn’t fit into the sub-sections of Part Five. Also in Part Seven will be further thoughts on sociopathy, plus a readers’ forum, my blog, my formal owning up to some nonfiction deceits, Acknowledgements, all sorts of stuff. If you subscribe to my DSP I’ll notify you about new postings.
As I write on September 11 (2006), this page is only outlined. Most links are not yet active. This page will have continuing stuff on it. Take a look at it and if you’re interested maybe put it in Favorites so you can periodically come back. Subscribe to my site and I’ll periodically notify you about what’s up.
World Affairs
Since this link is the most important, I’ve archived it here as well as elsewhere. I’ll provide another link to my Cut Chapters and Passages on this subject.
Pavones Now A potentially interesting subject (certainly from my point of view). I’ll tell you what I know of the current doings at my former paradise at the end of the road at the bottom of Central America. Updates on Fowlie (and his attempt to recapture his former land holdings), the Moras, Logan the Nutcase, etc., plus the reactions of Pavones residents to my book.
I’ll ask folks who live there or go there to be spies for me, which is an amusing concept: this will make certain Pavones people nervous about visitors. Full blown paranoia may result!
Lisa Now I’ll fill you in on this potentially interesting subject — so interesting it merits its own link – and likewise ask people who know her or come to know her to keep me informed. I’ll remind folks who run into her to hum a few bars of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and relay her reaction.
The Lies I’ve Told
Since this subject didn’t fit elsewhere, I’ll put it here. I’ll own up to the deceits I perpetrate in my book, explain why I perpetrated them, and how I live with myself in having perpetrated them.
Nonfiction
Related to the above section about the lies I’ve told, I’ll blab more on the nonfiction genre.
My Blog
I get to say more stuff.
Reader’s Forum
You get to say stuff, reply to other readers’ stuff, and get your stuff replied to. I’ll start some threads myself then it’s every man for himself. This should get wild and wooly. I hope so, anyway.
Recommended Reading
Aside from Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, there are a bunch of other books about why the world is so fucked up that are worth reading. I’ll also recommend books that I’ve found just flat pleasurable to read.
Acknowledgements
People in my life who really have helped and supported me, as opposed to gaslighting me and in general being shitball motherfuckers.
By the way, here's the first review of CYGAWA:
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