Election Coverage

[madonna at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU]

my favorites were the extended metaphor for a close race "hot and tight,
as hot and tight as a [wet?] swimsuit on a two-[?]hour drive drive back
from the beach," and the riff on "if," in response to his colleague's
hypothetical scenario, "if a frog had side pockets he'd have [carry?]
handguns."

my mother is a transplanted southerner, and some of dan's extemporizing
reminded me of hers.  one difference:  she will reel off half of
_bartlett's familiar quotations_ without attribution; he at least
mentioned "the good book" in connection with the race not always being won
by the swift.

sylvia swift
madonna at socrates.berkeley.edu