FALSE STARTS/BULWER-LYTTON ENTRIES Everyone used to laugh at Jesse for his foolish worship of Pippi Longstocking; today that laughter stops. "Drop and give me a googolplex," shouted the nerdy drill sergeant as he eased himself into a lawn chair, settling in for the long haul. "C'mon seven, c'mon seven," said Lotus-Blossom, whose delicate Oriental features seemed as out of place on the Mississippi riverboat as the prodigious lump in her trousers. The children hooted and hollered and they gathered around cousin Cleetus; and we all secretly envied him his dangerously high blood pressure as we watched yet another mosquito fill up and explode on his arm. The walls were wet with envy, and they mocked me. "No, no, no, Jockamo. You kinna staple your ear to soil!" "She had features which could only be described as optional." "There was no doubt in anyone's mind that the butler had, in fact, done it; the only question was: To whom!!!???" "Hey you, you, yeah you, in the green plaid pants and technicolor bowtie, you, that's right, you," said Veronica, to no one in particular. I hated him the way most people hate Ghenghis Khan... historically!! "There are eight million stories in the naked city," said the beleagured "New Yorker" fiction editor, throwing yet another tale of Yuppie love from the slush pile into the circular one(trash can), "And they all suck." "Drop and give me a googolplex," shouted the nerdy drill sergeant to his men as he eased himself into a lawn chair, settling in for the long haul. "Sarah," said Noodle, "mop!" One potato, two potato, all my own. "It's a squish," Paula belfed as her woman's size twelve foot prevented so many tadpoles from becoming frogs. "Can't," said Glenda, and didn't. If you ever see a man selling cigarettes from the back of his trousers, do not, I repeat, under any circumstances, even if he's really really cute, buy Menthol. Castanets, carbuncles, corral, bridge tokens, none of these rhyme with "purple" and I'm shit out of luck again. Fabula, beautiful countess from the tiny country of Exotica, languished sighingly by her bedroom window, the regular breeze cooling her slightly parted thighs--thighs that men had wept over, fought wars over, been spanked over(for our Fabula can be a randy lass oh yes she can)--and, with one leg tucked magically under her, rocked ever so to and fro, thinking all the while of the one man she could never keep, could never tame, until tiny little tremors of pleasure began to radiate outward from her undulating center and caromed palpatatingly off all the corners of her body, especially, she noted, her elbows and knees, as well as her most secret, folded places, and then they flew home faster, faster, ever faster until she could take it no longer and, screaming "Oh, I die," fainted dead away, and the effect was not altogether unpleasant.