a fool in the forest: Ken Layne: Technology Savant & Merry Prankster

Epigraphs

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the
forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and bask'd him
in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good
terms,
In good set terms and yet a motley
fool.

As You Like It,
Act II, Scene 7

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

Best Personal Blog
by a Legally-Oriented
Male Blogger
Blawg Review Awards 2005

Of Related Interest

April 28, 2005

Ken Layne: Technology Savant & Merry Prankster

In his daily "Shift Memo" at Sploid, Ken Layne reveals himself as yet another podcasting skeptic. Colorful idiomatic expressions are deployed and the application of patented iPod technology to evil purposes -- albeit evil purposes of a remarkably petty nature -- is contemplated.

Hilarity ensues.

Sobriety counter-ensues, but you can be sure that only the lawyers will make out well in the end.

[Elsewhere, Ken promises fresh posts this week for his nifty, but sadly neglected, Highways West. It appears that this will involve wildflower appreciation and other manly virtues.]

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a fool in the forest

The personal & cultural web journal of George M. Wallace, an attorney practicing in Pasadena, California.