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   > An update on "Dirty Birds, by Morgan Murray".  I'm lovin' it.   
   > The satire is pratically non-stop.   Excerpt:   
   > "Saskatchewan is the distillation of geography into the purest   
   > mathematical form of utilitarian colonial averageness.   
   > "It's what happens when history and landscape are erased, and a   
   > kind of bland Victorian modernist utopia is designed from   
   > scratch by bureaucrats who had never seen a prairie sky in its   
   > full spring fury, who had never had a whiff of native prairie   
   > grasses in late summer, who had never had their nostrils freeze   
   > shut in a cold prairie winter   
      
   Reminds me of episode one of Corner Gas:   
      
   A stranger pulls up to the gas station & addresses Brent S: Sure is flat here.   
   . .   
   B: How do you mean?   
   Hank: Maybe he means topographically? S: I mean there's nothing to see here,   
   it's so flat and empty. B: Plenty to sees, like those tall majestic purple   
   mountains over that way;  wjat th'? I could've sworn they were there this   
   morning! S: Is this hgow you treat all your visitors? H: Nothin' else to do.   
      
   > "The Queen's Own Rulers and Her Majesty's Protractors drew a   
   > perfect rectangle in the middle of an imperfect continent.   
      
   Somebody slapped a ruler down & drew a line on either side, & voila!. we had   
   an even ten provinces!   
      
   > I think the book might be more enjoyable for folks who are   
   > somewhat familiar who Leonard Cohen is, the streets of   
   > Montreal, and perhaps a lil'bit of french.   
      
   I'm out ohn the streets of Montreal. . . The boroughs, maybe, as I broke up   
   my  doctor search by them. . .   
      
   > "Milton had lost his will to go on. He was sure he was going to   
   > die there, in a pile, on the sidewalk in front of a McDonald's.   
   > Another stranger handed him a couple nickels.   
   > "The custom of giving new arrivals loose change struck him as   
   > odd, but also a bit delightful. What a kind and generous place,   
   > he thought, as someone handed him an entire loonie.   
      
   I & a coulpe mates were in Victopria for a day out, & an older lady pressed a    
   handful of change into the one guy's hand, who usually dressed rather down    
   home-y. . .   
      
   Apparently they do this to try to forestall am unconfortable meeting where    
   someone asks them for change & they have to lie.  Or mybe it's for good luck?   
      
   My buddy didn't care. Free money.  I was just jealous (was almost $5!)   
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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