BL> he wrote an SF marvel called SNOW CRASH, years ago...

RB> That I've heard of, but never got round to reading.

 If you liked William Gibson, this is the antidote.

BL> it's a satire. How weird is that - an American who does Monty
BL> Python?

RB> Perhaps he's one of the few people who grasp surrealism; over
RB> here, the Python's were more or less responsible for the
RB> current abysmal state of our humour, because lesser minds saw
RB> Monty Python's Flying Circus and parlayed it into silliness and
RB> bad taste as being automatically funny. 

 Monty Python was almost-always over the line, anyway. You needed a
course in irony to get past the bad taste to see the funny part.

Regards,
Bob



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