From: I. Zelnik
Category: Amis
Date: 8/23/99
Time: 8:26:47 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.126.3
FROM THE STEPHENP ARCHIVES: "*Six* is probably also a reference to some unforgivable isotope. *Nicola Six* also sounds like Nuclear Sex. Of course. Talking of 'unforgivable', there was another ancient thread regarding Amis's favourite or most over-used words. Well, it's 'unforgivable', particularly when used anthropomorphically. Like the Talents' cactus or gherkin leaning in its yogurt pot at an 'unforgivable angle'."
FROM *THE KING'S ENGLISH* BY KINGSLEY AMIS: *Pathetic fallacy*---"Anybody who happens not to know this phrase already, as it were, is ludicrously distant from being able to work out what it means, and the thing itself has now been all but silenced by ridicule; nevertheless duty still calls. Ruskin originally coined the phrase. In Fowler's words the so-called fallacy means 'the tendency to credit nature with human emotions', and 'the wind gave a howl of disappointed fury at its victim's escape' is often given as an example. Adjectives applied to the sea are especially fraught with this danger, or said to be."
IRVING ZELNIK SEZ: The condescending contempt in Kingsley's first sentence makes me wanna bring Kingsley back to life for the express purpose of kicking his teeth down his fucking throat. I can't believe that snotty sac of pus. What he's obviously saying is: "If you don't already know the meaning of the term *pathetic fallacy*, then you're an idiot." I bitterly regret that me & my biker buddies didn't crack Kingsley's ribs with a pool cue when we had the chance. Don't fuck with us Angels, Kingsley. Wherever you are. (And personally, my hope is that Kingsley is currently getting straddled & manhandled by Truman Capote in The Third Circle Of Shitbag Hell.)