[lit-ideas] Friend Richard Nixon
- From: Austin Meredith <Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:48:44 -0400
>A thousand thanks to Austin for spilling the beans. Very informative. I
>had always thought Quakers were called Quakers because they quaked in fear
>of the Lord, but I see now it's in fear of becoming a Richard Nixon.
God Damn, now you can understand how we were shaking in our boots all
during that man's long sway over the White House -- "He's telling everyone
he *represents us*!"
We have a tradition of sending volunteer groups of concerned elders to
visit recalcitrant erring Friends, to "labor with them." This process we
refer to as "eldering." During Friend Richard Nixon's sway over the White
House we sent unnumbered such groups to visit and labor with Friend
Richard. He had a man on his payroll part of whose job was to meet with our
committees of concern as they arrived -- and keep us the hell away from him.
Yes, yes, that's why modern Quakers quake -- we quake for fear of waking up
some morning and having our Kafka moment, looking in the mirror and
discovering that we've metamorphed into Friend Richard!
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