[lit-ideas] "Do not spit" (Was: Arist. "Eth. Nich." iv 56b)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:24:09 EST
"I've only been to Graceland once -- some 4 years ago now, showing a dear
friend
around town -- it's an "interesting" place, as they say."
MEMPHIS, TN. Man Gets Spit on His Face. Graceland. Last Saturday a revolt at
Graceland took place when the tourist guide, Rick Hellerman, was spit on the
face by a resident alien of Argentina. Rick Hellerman recalls:
"This person kept looking at me with strange eyes."
Q: He was following your commentary?
A: Yes, he was for some reason especially interested in the bathroom, where,
you know, Elvis died.
Q: How do you know he was a foreigner?
A: He carried two volumes of Loeb with him. You could tell.
Q: And what do you think caused his aggression towards you.
A: Well, there are a number of signs all over Graceland. On the lawn, "Do
not walk on the lawn", the usual signs, you know.
Q: But he spit on you.
A: Well, yes -- Out of the blue, rather. He later explained that what
motivated him was that sign, "Do not spit".
Q: A delinquent.
A: Yes, a delinquent, indeed.
Geary:
"I've only been to Graceland once -- some 4 years ago now, showing a dear
friend
around town -- it's an "interesting" place, as they say. But if I were
coming
to Memphis, I'd only come for the barbeque -- best in the world. Graceland
is
uniquely a 'working-class-boy-suddenly-gets-rich' kind of place. It's both
endearing and tacky -- judged, that is, from my working-class, male,
Southern,
formerly Catholic, Taoist-tending, socialistic, but with upper-class
pretentiousness value system. Elvis and me -- I'm the better AC man."
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