But Mr. Adam repeatedly mocked the thought, and suggested that prosecutors were overreaching when they claimed talk of the senate seat could be deemed a crime.
At The Financial Times's Alphaville blog, a former fan complained that the new book reads like an extended version of the mock-ponderous "Deep Thoughts" that Jack Handey used to write for "Saturday Night Live," and reviews elsewhere have ranged from tepid to scathing.
"Oh no," says Alan Cummings (with mock horror at the thought, indeed at most of my thoughts).
She's the kind of person who always speaks her thoughts so will happily mock herself and mock others.
"No, not at all!" Laura Siegel replied in mock horror, not at the thought of taking shop, but at the idea that an ivory tower for girls like the Spence School would offer such a crudely vocational course.
They challenge assumptions, unsettle cosily habitual thought patterns and mock stereotypical behaviour.
Allowing ourselves to express ugly, disreputable feelings and thoughts, under cover of mocking them?
The head, discovered in a filthy ditch, its eyes squeezed shut, its thoughts unknown, is a mocking, teasing entity.
Sandy represents the thoughts of the audience (disbelief, mock horror and, finally, sheer joy) as Sandra shimmies, gyrates and generally rocks out, fuelled only, she claims, by an onion bhaji.
Put another way, prudence may be an easy choice to mock, and a wiser one to practice a thought that may have applications these days beyond the Houston infield.
