HOW WE THINK
WE CAN / ONLY?
First impressions make me droop;
anyone can be anybody, first time
around. I once knew a guy who said
what he was, and who - but it was
mostly all made up and he turned
out an ass. Another fellow, well-met
but shallow, couldn't tell a truth if
it was under his butt and jabbing
him. Those two guys are both dead
now, and that's the truth anyway.
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Forrestal matrons and corduroy
kings? The story goes, about
corduroy, that it was once only
a regal's fabric, to be worn only
by nobles in the King's court. By
that did it take its rightful name :
'Cord du Roi.' So the story goes.
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Maybe that too was made-up, to
fit some pattern of thought as a
trimmed fabric of recognition. It
was Lillian Hellman, a writer, who,
during the Blacklisting of the 1950's,
said 'I will NOT trim my fabric to
fit today's fashion!' I always thought
THAT was pretty noble. She got the
bum's rush, and was blacklisted.
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