At 11:44 AM 1/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Everyone should read this IMMEDIATELY -- it's spectacularly funny!
>
>Thanks, Robert, for providing evidence that my old graduate school buddy
>Mark Leyner is still capable of hilarity -- and would one of you
>cross-posters from the poetics list transfer it over there as well?
>
>
 
Was the joke that it was computer code -- hence, unreadable?
 
(":#9""8P3d,P4B9!"849K869G*53#3"#B@!*!%F#%0#L"(CA*KE'4[,#"&BA3J@@p" etc.)
 
Anyway, that's what I and maybe others got in our inboxes....
 
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