Re: Dr. Bowman, meet Dr. Seuss

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Sometimes, I swear, bananafish seem like born-again Manichaeists.  For example:



God can't root for the Yankees.  He's
>too busy rooting for the team that plays for the City of the Angels :)
>


The first sentence is so eminently sensible that it virtually qualifies as
capital "T" Truth....  But it's followed, almost in the same breath, by a
sentence so stupid that it doesn't bear serious discussion.  If God were a
Dodger, She definitely died the day the team left Brooklyn!  Hasn't our old
buddy D. B. Caulfield taken up residence in that detestible excuse for a
city?  And doesn't Holden describe it as a place of prostitution, rather
than a stop or two short of Heaven itself?  City of the Angels, indeed!

--Paul

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