Tuesday, October 24, 2006

 
Re Rameh's Chesterton quote...The Arrow of Prime?....

reminded me of last weekend's seminar "chaired" by the retired Alan Greenspan at Buckley College. The lecture got off to a shaky start when an attractive co-ed, noting an apparent rise in his laptop portfolio asked, "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you glad to see me?"
Without missing a beat, off-topic, the hunched-over-in-the-chair-man informed the class that "packing" is *required* even of visiting profs, and that with respect to his own "personal retirement package", it was "no longer capable of such irrational protuberance." He then segued into a denunciation of the film school's production of Atlas Shagged.
But it was MEGO for me after that, as he droned on about each and every frickin' fractional change he effected in the "Prime" (he didn't bother to answer my question about the overnight exchange rate of bodily fluids and hookers)and my lazily scribbled notes about how tight fiscal policy in the early Reagan(before Al's tenure) years led the lowering of long-term interest rates and eventual economic recovery are a little hard to read but look something like,

"And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled
A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower
Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming gain."

Following that, I wheezed up with in my best "Old Man" voice with, "Help! I'm falling and can't get it up!" And was promptly taken outside by, I think, goons from the "Wood Party," to the "woodshed." And yes, they had an actual woodshed. And yes, it was some serious short-term pain.