Please ignore my rant against Memphis. I'm just in a real pissy mood today. Memphis isn't to blame, though I do have serious issues with her. I've had college professors who had moved to Memphis from much more hip places tell me that they hated this city, but that they had never before had such good, close friendships as they have/had in Memphis. I suppose it's a kind of garrison mentality that brings people closer together. Whaterever. Sorry for crying in your beer.
Mike Geary----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:51 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Just a personal note.
It's 5:15 a.m. here. Police helicopters are circling overhead, Just another morning in Memphis. As much as I love San Fransico, I love Seattle more. It's more homey, more Memphis, sans dimwittedness. I hate Memphis so much, and yet it's who I am. Memphis now rivals New Orleans for political corruption, but it lacks the panache of New Orleans. I thought I had kicked the dust of Memphis from my sandals some 10 years ago, but alas, here I am, back where most of those whom I most dearly love live. It's the place I know best. Memphis is who I am. Sometimes I think that's very sad, sometimes I celebrate that. We are, each human being on this earth, so totally local that it's amazing that life is even possible. Thank God for politics.Mike Geary Memphis----- Original Message ----- From: "- phatic" <phatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:10 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM (retort) on a Wednesday Apropos MG's reminder that hewould like to disassociate myself from your questionable comments about God's intelligence. Though God's judgments might seem arbitrary at times, somewhat like the Governor's in "Blazing Saddles", still we must withhold judgment until all has been unfolded in the End Times. Perhaps there's inscrutable wisdom at work here that we cannot fathom in our mere creatureliness. Lest your jabs at God's judgment be seen as seditious, I ask you to stay out of lightning strike from me for the foreseeable future.the following may be of relevance (to atheists):the true formula of materialism is not "God doesn't exist," but "God is unconscious"pace Zizek... <a href=http://www.lacan.com/replenin>http://www.lacan.com/replenin</a> -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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