Path: math.utah.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!not-for-mail From: dprosser@titan.ucs.umass.edu (dp) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: Llamas Date: 18 Mar 1993 01:12:31 -0500 Organization: Aphasia Text Editors, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1o93sfINNt7b@titan.ucs.umass.edu> References: <1993Mar18.124008.91521@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu In article <1993Mar18.124008.91521@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes: ...... > Disclaimer. If you love your llama, let it lambada. When my dearheart, Ellen, and I first got together, she spent some time in the hospital for a back operation, during which time she was pumped full of perkodans and demerol. This induce in her a case of aphasia. --[ ``a total or partial loss of the power of using or understanding words, usually caused by brain disease or injury.'' Webster's Unabridged]-- She quickly got into the habit of making up words when the right one disappeared; she still does this. She told me once that she has always wanted to raise a certain kind of animal; she paused, searching for the right word (which was ``llama''). She finally said, ``Bunny-horses.'' dp .............. ``This city smoke and building steel already is no more; The music and cities of the future wait beyond the edge.'' gary snyder, `Out of the soil and rock' -- ___________________dp ==> dprosser@titan.ucs.umass.edu______________________