From: zola@hardy.u.washington.edu (Candlestick)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
Subject: A history of the O'Tooles
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:54:43 GMT
Organization: Pensee en Survol



I was down getting a new setting for my blue topaz ring, thinking something
more simple would be better.  While I was there, I was chatting with 
R. Charming O'Toole - and he pointed out to me this little bit of literary 
bickering going on here.  It is a sad day that in the absence of Mr. Green
you boys just sit in the den and snipe at each other.  Now stop it.  Marcus 
knows full well about the properties of cats as they relate to the O'Tooles.
And Posthumous, certainly you have something better to do.  Write poetry
for dog's sake.  

Years ago, at one of the family reunions (of the O'Tooles) - which happened to
be in Mexico City, several of the second cousins decided to go for a swim. It
happened to be about 9pm at the time.  I think it was Lucy (who loved and 
admired and missed Virginia) who wanted to swim just so she could feign walking
into the Thames.  The rest of us were just too warm.  Well, while we were 
getting used to the water, dipping toes, splashing about, wishing for grunions,
a man came out of no where yelling "shark!!!!"   


 Do you see my point?



donz@ui.org (Posthumous O'Toole) writes:

> mtaranto@shearson.com (Marky Taranto) writes:
>>
>>        A HISTORY OF THE O'TOOLES
>>        From Atlantis to Green and Beyond
>>
>>        Mark Allen Taranto
>>        Guns & Literature Press
>>        St. Paul
>>        $19.95 (Hardback)
>
>Here we see Mark Taranto, proven O'Toole basher, speak of an impending book
>about the O'Tooles AND declaring himself:

Posthumous, have you forgotten the gala at Mr. Tarantula's home?   Have 
you been eating aluminum again?  Mr. Tarantella has as much right to write
as anyone - because you and I both know that whatever is written is a lie
anyways, and secondly, that an outsider (or rather non-O'Toole) will write
a version of things which is not comprehensive.  How can Mr. Tarantella
possibly understand the O'Tooles.  Don't worry, this is similar to a precocious
child writing about Dante.  (as someone else was saying- clever but     
misunderstood...)

>
>>the historian of the
>>O'Tooles.  
>
>This threatens me because it is at least in name very similar to my
>Official O'Toole Title as "O'Toole Archivist" which I inherited from Josef
>O'Toole after his death.

As an O'Toole you must also realize that life (and your death) is a dynamic
process.  Besides that there are many people who write about the O'Tooles.

>
>But even more frightening is his attempt at a book in which he intends to
>use "facts" to reduce O'Toolism to so many numbers and statistics.  As
>O'Toole Archivist, I refuse to have anything to do with facts and I urge
>you all not to buy this book.  In fact, I will be organizing O'Toole
>protests in order to have the book banned from bookstores everywhere
>(Waldenbooks has already expressed interest in this notion, due to their
>concern over lack of sales).  And, be warned, when O'Tooles protest there's
>more involved than mere picket signs!  (we are Irish, after all)

Oh, Posty, it is just a book.  An unauthorized biography.  Don't endorse it,
but if people can't figure out that O'Toolism is at once nothing and 
everything, then let them be relegated to an understanding limited by numbers
and statistics.  See what Mr. Ontario does before you attack - or not.

>
>However, I must say I am flattered by your implication that I am an
>Archangel (though this has yet to be verified).

Leave it to Posthumous to get all huffy, and then smile when he is flattered.
I shall take to calling you a Coquette.
But - really these are just my thoughts.  Since both of you have been to
see the Wizard, I would think that there would be some common understanding.
On the other hand, maybe you will just be reduced to bickering.

>
>Yrs,
>
>Posthumous
>
>(p.s. both your note and my reply will be forwarded God-knows-where so that
>the Maestro himself may read it.)
>
>
There is a Guiseppe Verdi show playing in town.

ciao,
Candlestick


p.s.  Posthumous, really, it will be fine.  Just close your 
      eyes and think of Jerry Salinger.  ___cocktail?____
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:00:25 GMT
Subject: Self Critic
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA