L'homme y passe à travers des
forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards
familiers.
Les Fleurs du Mal,
“Correspondances”
[T]here is almost no subject-matter, and what little one can disentangle is foolish....
One would call the style verbose, except that by definition verbosity is the use of words in excess of the occasion, and there seems to be no occasion.
Yvor Winters,
Forms of Discovery, Ch. 7
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In the world of pop cultural false dichotomies,
"Betty or Veronica?"
is even more venerable than
"Ginger or Marianne?"
Consequently, it must be said that this is just wrong.
Left scarily unanswered in this report: what cruel and extreme makeover lies in store for Forsythe Pendleton Jones III?
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Ye bogs.
I'd like to point out that the "old" Veronica and Betty were considerably moderned-up from the ones I grew up with
Posted by: meg | December 18, 2006 at 05:09 PM
True, true. But the current versions are closer to their originals than those new versions are to, well, much of anything.
Posted by: George Wallace | December 18, 2006 at 07:55 PM
Best Simpson's quote ever. Comic Book Guy says, "Big Ethel kills Moose to get Jughead's attention? Oh, Brian Michael Bendis, you've done it again!"
And the answers are Marianne and Veronica.
Posted by: Rick | December 19, 2006 at 06:42 AM