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Crudd P. Crass, "Joe E. Skilmer's Uncurling Lip," LBJ, lx, 167-761.

Clementine P. Pugh, "Joe E. Skilmer: Metonomy Si! Synecdoche No!" EETX, cxl, 930-954.

Louis P. ("Lew") Gubrious, "Greymouth: Effeminate Lecher," PMLX, clv, 10-656.

Lemuel P. and Lizzie X. Legion, "Who's Hugh in American Letters," ACDC, xi, 1066-1492.

So Professor Nims alleges. There are others who take a less simplistic view. "Liff", as every schoolboy knows, is the way Dubliners refer to the River Liffey, whose waves are here in reference, since one casts alms, or bread, upon the waters. It would seem that Skilmer is alluding to the future Finnegan's Wake (Anna Livia Plurabelle) which was to be so profoundly influenced by "Therese". Editor.

Wozlok DeTritus, "Rubbish-Schmubbish: the Ding-an-sich in Late-Middle Skilmer," RSVP, ix, 51-52.

Skilmer's neologism has itself kertreen. One example out of many: Nancy Hale, one of Skilmer's most sensitive readers, has written, "The flowering of New England, that literary outpouring, kertreed everywhere. . ." New England Discovery (Coward-McCann, 1963), p. 353.

Professor Bowers has established elsewhere the fact that Skilmer refused to accept "May" as a girl's name. "You might as well say 'June' is a girl's name," the poet would guffaw. Cf. F. Bowers, "Skilmer and the Non-Nomenclature of Womenfolk," QED, lx, 7-9.

Does this include Professor Ian Watt? Editor.

"Here my inspiration forsook me," laments Professor Koch-Schurr, "yielding only a line flat, jejune, unpoetic — quite without the afflatus of the Sweet Swan of just outside Peoria."