[lit-ideas] Re: Murder by Membership
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:31:33 -0230
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
authenticity 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> wrote:
>
> From: Phil Enns <phil.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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