[lit-ideas] Re: Murder by Membership
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:26:44 -0230
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
snip
> .... think what *reams* of
> stuff you've read and written! That should give anyone pause.
I think you put your finger on the point of tenure.
A very poignant post. Thanks for the offer but I try to avoid autobiographical
reflection; it interferes with the philosophical project of inquiry and
analysis.
Happy to share a location in cyberspace,
Walter O.
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> And perhaps
> even a sense of an underlying continuity through years which have seen so
> many life changes.
>
> Now *that's* truly a disconcerting notion .... that one of the constants in
> my life over the span of too-many-to-type-here years is the most ephemeral
> substance of them all -- a location in cyberspace.
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
>
> On 6/2/08, wokshevs@xxxxxx <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I believe it's time for the truth about this List to be disclosed:
> members,
> > once
> > recruited, can neither check out anytime they please, nor ever
> > leave. Attempts
> > to do either, indeed even the thought of doing either, will cause the
> > release
> > of a very large white bouncing ball which will chase you wherever you go
> > until
> > you cease your fruitless efforts at a life outside the zone.
> >
> > Powerful hallucinogenic substances, secretly instilled in your favourite
> > foods
> > and libations while you sleep, will at times give you the impression that
> > you
> > have indeed successfully escaped the demands of list membership on your
> > authnticity and powers of analysis and are now happily pursuing the good
> > life
> > somewhere in Soho, free those interminable metaphysical disputes and those
> > hair-splitting, mind-eroding conceptual analyses.... (not to mention the
> > poetry
> > .. oh the poetry!)
> >
> > But eventually ..... the truth slowly and indelibly begins to sink in:
> > you're
> > still here and you're still one of us. Caged forever in the space of
> > reasons
> > simply for failing to attain omniscience and omnipotence in this sublunary
> > life. True, you're not alone ... and there's the rub.
> >
> > Dante or Rod Serling or The Cheap Detective or Public Reason? ... YOU
> > decide.
> >
> > Karloff ... WALTER Karloff .... shaken, not stirred, by the truth of it
> > all.
> >
> >
> > Quoting Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > I've been thinking about this post below, and have decided that I need
> to
> > > take some time off from posting on this list. I'd like to thank
> you
> > all
> > > for listening to my no doubt misdirected rants and I'd like to wish
> > you
> > > all a nice summer. I just thought I'd mention that the Seekers
> took
> > > their melody for the Carnival is Over from the song Stenka Rasin.
> > I've
> > > pasted the only link Youtube seems to have. The fact that it's
> from
> > > their farewell concert is sheer coincidence. The words from S.R.
> > > superimpose perfectly but needless to say the Carnival is Over is
> > not
> > > S.R. I listened today to, talk about a rant, Marshall Goldman
> > carrying
> > > on about Petrostate Russia. The U.S. does exactly the same things
> > they
> > > do (our Veep is straight out of industry, etc. etc.), but that's
> > > different. It's so sad that he spends his life studying something
> > that
> > > he can't find one good thing to say about. Why not find another
> > > country to study? Anyway, no Persian princesses being thrown
> > overboard
> > > here (BTW, Iranian beluga caviar is golden today because beluga
> > > sturgeons rescued the princess and brought her home):
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
> > >
> > > Here is a musical tango version of S.R., put your dancing shoes on; the
> > > writing on the record is Polish from what I can tell:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-tNwcJosg&NR=1
> > >
> > > Then pour a nice drink and try a jazzy, pretty version of Dark Eyes
> > > (Ochi Chernye):
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbJkf74z24
> > >
> > > And with that, have a nice summer all.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Sun, 6/1/08, Phil Enns
> <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx<lt%3Bphil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx <lt%3Bphil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Here's a new spin on preventative medicine
> > > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 2:21 AM
> > >
> > > Robert Paul wrote, in response to someone's little rant:
> > >
> > > "Noted."
> > >
> > > Someone is doing their 'Andy' routine again. I think of it as
> > > watching a psychodrama. Sometimes farce, sometimes tragic, always
> > > pathological.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Phil Enns
> > > Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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