Thursday, October 04, 2007

Is This Email Telling Me Something?

It's bad enough that last week I looked up and saw a huge black vulture perched above me in a tree; in Massachusetts, no less. Now I get this cryptic email that almost jarred my brain into a seizure. Like a Japanese kids' show but more sinister and weird, if that's possible. I know some of what happened. Random paragraphs of the English language find their way into email advertisements, to help get past "spam" filters. Fair enough. But how about something out of Faulkner, or the minutes from a meeting of the June, 1883 Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity (which really did exist). Shit, anything else, except a Bible verse, perhaps, would be fine. Naturally, it was a cheap drug/Viagra ad. Cheap drugs and boners. Anyway, here's the email:

"Unaccustomed herself to the surprise of finding her divorce unopposed,
Americans have been to Mount Vernon and Gettysburg?
at Antietam and at Gettysburg, but the Union army never thought of
Accurate and murderous they seem when you drop low behind a
against a man by one who has power over him. The personal
An hour passed and all were not by. One sat down for a few minutes
afterward put it, a mere stick to hang clothes on (but they _did_
as the ticks of a clock made almost no smoke, as they brought some
about gunnery; which is one reason for writing this chapter.
are always making reports. Everybody is, so that whoever is superior
Apparently, when the French fought they left red tape behind with the
afterward put it, a mere stick to hang clothes on (but they _did_
as he put faith and backbone into a soldier by their very manner; and
a town of brick and mortar and pavements whose very defencelessness
approached one noted an eagerness, a tightening of nerves. Natural
another one hundred and fifty yards away and fire a rifle occasionally
A vice-admiral at forty-four! A man who is a rear-admiral with us at
army he represents stand for. The blows which the demons from the..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lord, I must say, this thing posted was way way over my head. I didn't even understand it in the least! Must have made you nuts! Was the picture in this email? The one you posted? As I started to read, talking of the vulture, I'm sorry, I laughed my ass off!!!