And how in due time, the bumpkin's bumpkinish Vice President took it upon himself to run for president himself?

This unlikely tale begins when a bumpkinish shepherd, Pedro, tosses a stone down a mountain to magically predict where he might someday find a wife.

Ms. Hemingway concedes she's no clothes horse but says she relished helping revamp her character from bumpkinish out-of-towner to soignee Armani-suited Manhattanite.

To her surprise, the bumpkinish fellow by Nieh Ho-T'ing spoke up: "While war and politics cannot be divorced for a single instant, still it is sometimes necessary to remind the foe that power springs ultimately from the barrel of a gun.

The first consists of essays about Sedaris' life before his move to Normandy, France, including his upbringing in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, his time working odd jobs in New York City, and a visit to New York from a childhood friend and her rather bumpkinish girlfriend.

In 1981, drawing on a news report about Leicester Hemingway's "New Atlantis", novelist Inoue Hisashi wrote a 700-page work of magic realism, Kirikirijin, about a village that secedes from Japan and proclaims its bumpkinish, marginalized dialect its national language, and its subsequent war of independence.

So the very most important of them, the reigning power of the opinion pages, took it upon herself to invent dialogs between the bumpkinish Vice President and a bald spot she found on his head, and intuited how a famous feminist had advised him to dress in "earth tones", and pronounced him "so feminine he's practically lactating".