Scylla In WWWonderland Canto V

Book One



Canto V
The "Email" Canto



To: Director@cia.gov
Bav@vatlib.it
Charles@princeofwales.gov.uk
Gloria@vanderbilt.com
George@soros.org
From: Scylla
Date: (withheld)
Subject: The World

Hi!*



*EDITOR'S NOTE

Ascending to the stage of World-Importance is not something that comes naturally to most of us, be we of high or low station. But in the case of the amazing Scylla vom und zu Karybdis, it is evidently as instinctively natural as accepting the mother's teat when new-born.

And while, for most of us, the words "Hi World" are limited to a form of sophomoric self-mockery indulged in only (with the emphasis on ONLY) during the elementary courses in computer science with the first attempts to produce output at what the cyberneticists call a "terminal", we find here an altogether transmogrified potentiation of those same words in the glorious hands of a Master Artist.



END OF BOOK ONE
Scylla In WWWonderland

Ode to Gloria Vanderbilt

Out the window with the old!*
Time for a bold new view
Sic transit Vanderbilt mundi
I'm Scylla --

Who are you?


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* Scylla is here, rather rudely I fear, referring to Ms. Vanderbilt's eldest son committing suicide by jumping out of her bedroom window as she watched, helplessly ...

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen

Scylla In WWWonderland Canto IV

Book One



Canto IV



Eenie, Meenie
Mein Kampf Moe
Catch a George Soros
...

By the Jean Cocteau?