[lit-ideas] Re: Praise of Archives
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:59:49 -0500
Dear Comrade Amigo,
A thorough search of Panopticon Universal's files over the passed 150 years
shows no record of said Geary ever completing anything.
Yours in the Revolution,
Comrade Professor Smith, ASDFG
Dean of the Graduate School
Department of Communications
Puking Sound University
Omagod, Washington
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From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Praise of Archives
Comrade Professor Smith,
Our long, co-operative search for my thesis topic is at an end. Hours
combing through early twenty first century archives produced nothing on
the Memphis Celtic Revival School and Dishwasher's Aid. All hope of
finding an original pre-revolutionary poem seemed lost. And then
yesterday, in the basement of my liberated mansion, the freon-based Maytag
refrigerator's compressor finally broke. Knowing its value to the state,
I dismantled it and there, just inside the case, I found "In Praise of the
Archives," scribbled out in what I'm sure will prove to be the poet's own
hand. How the work came to this basement will take all my energy to trace
and document, but I have a first clue: oral traces, showing on the
echomometrascope, of two voices, one saying, "Not drink six beers all in
one go? Brilliant!" The other saying something like--it's a little
unclear--"I needed a sign. NOW I can finish the novel."
What a day for our glorious state!
What a day for refrigeration!
Long live Comrade Geary.
Comrade Winston Amigo, ABD
Department of Tactile Slipperiness
Skid Row College,
Toga-on-the-Bed Springs, New York
p.s. Is there any record of Saint Geary finishing a novel?
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