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Content I enjoyed <a href="https://www.ecphorizer.com/EPS/site_page.php?issue=56&page=911">Buckley Fish's article</a> in the November issue of <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Eck</span> and could not agree more with his conclusions. I spent a year and a half as a student in West Berlin and got to see quite a bit of East Germany. One of my most vivid memories from that period was having to hit the dirt at an elevated station when it was buzzed by a MiG-21 flying about fifty feet over the deck. They were retaliating against something Lyndon Johnson had said, I seem to recall.<br/> <br/> Last year, one of the people where I work came busting into the office with the horrendous news about the shooting down of KAL 007. "How can they do such a horrible thing, killing so many people like that?" he expostulated, thinking that it was n rhetorical question. It wasn't. "Easy," I said, with the confidence born of considerable acquaintance with the Russians, "they're a bunch of assholes." I always did like general-purpose answers. This one fits a lot of questions.<br/> <br/> Also a note on Pelicans ["<a href="https://www.ecphorizer.com/EPS/site_page.php?issue=56&page=902">The Case of the Pious Pelican</a>", November]. While I was going to school in West Berlin, I remember learning that the first document in which the pelican is explicated as an emblem of Jesus Christ (giving his blood to save humanity) is <span style="font-style: italic;">Physiologus</span>, a product of Alexandrian Hellenism that is not slightly tainted with Gnosticism. It goes way back, in other words.<br/> <br/> And, while I have your attention, it has always been my ambition to conduct a correspondence with a fictitous person. I found a George Spelvin listed in the SFRM roster last year and tried to strike one up with him, but he has not been responsive. I suggested to him that the right genre for a correspondence with a fictitious person is fiction. How do you feel about it?<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;"> Gareth Penn<br/> </div> <br/> [line width="40%"]<br/> I was impressed by <a href="https://www.ecphorizer.com/EPS/site_page.php?issue=56&page=906">Paul Healy's excellent article </a>on Bartlett's <span style="font-style: italic;">Familiar Quotations</span> in the November issue. Paul might be amused to know of a curiousity in Bartlett's, both the latest edition and some previous ones, regarding the citation for Samuel Johnson's remark that "being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Bartlett's attributes the quote to Boswell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Life of Samuel Johnson</span> wherein Boswell was himself quoting his <span style="font-style: italic;">Tour of the Hebrides</span>. Bartlett's seems unaware that it is quoting a quote!<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;"> John Cumming <img width="20" height="13" src="/EPS/pictures/Image/EckE.gif" alt=""/><br/> </div>

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