MINe 109 said:

What's _your_ problem with Enid, slick?

Good Lord! Howard's got a sock-puppet! And a stash of old AS mags...

I don't think Shovels is an echo of the Ferstlerian. You remember the
truism about a roomful of monkeys banging away on typewriters? That's what
I think we've got in Shovels. Sooner or later, everything will be
repeated.