Re: virus: RE: Medicine and Self-Objects

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Sun, 30 May 1999 00:12:28 -0400

>Right now in this country
>(and all others) there is a flock of fools who think the older the remedy
>the more valid the cure.

When I first wrote this, I included the phrase 'granfalloon of fools' and, once on the screen, came to second thoughts, and, after webstering for a spell, figured I got the word wrong, and substituted 'flock'- a certainly less glorious word, if not unuseful....

'Granfalloon', as I've since rediscovered it, is a far more satisfying word to use for all the adherents and clients of charlatans- it is a word coined by none other than Kurt Vonnegut- mirabile dictu and thread incarnate....