Endnotes

1 This is a fractional excerpt. The full email ran to more than 6,000 words.

2 The working title of the single Taking Care of Business was White Collar Worker. If it had not been changed, the rest would not have been history.

3 Where the terms powder broker and power broker are used interchangeably, and with apologies to MB and his ilk.

4 The base word nincompoop is derived from the Latin for non compos mentis.

5 This is otherwise known as mimicry, one of four forms of Freudian humor, along with satire, irony and wordplay.

6 Actually, this was attributed to Anthony Weldon in or around 1650.

7 On KME’s playlist were subversives such as Minnie Riperton and Joni Mitchell coffee house folk covers.

8 eg, “wordplay.”