[lit-ideas] The List Recaptured

From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:24:51 EST
 LIT-IDEAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx seemed better than a place to journal between two 
wars or a refuge during the Bush administration. Rather too recent, it was one 
of those new lists where every archive is a cupboard of ciphers, and where the 
Spam and spybots surging in the Internet refuse to keep your hard disk company 
in the registry; for the list had been recently relocated and each post stood 
out so clearly that it might have been stamped like a real snail mail letter 
and each signature written in fountain pen, unlike vulnerable poorly 
administered networks in which, after a DOS attack, all the minidumps on the 
blue 
screens are outlined in one's leaky monitor, to trick the hours you lounge 
reloading windows from scratch. I spent the whole day in my room, the windows 
of which 
opened upon the muddy rat-haven of Eleanor Roosevelt Park, upon the trash 
cans by the entrance, upon the missing leaves of the great trees beside the 
Hudson and in the forest of Hoboken. It was a pleasure to contemplate all this, 
I 
was saying to myself: "How charming to have all this mud on my window" until 
suddenly in the midst of the great picture I recognized that the message board 
of the CHURCH OF LIT-IDEAS@xxxxxxxxxx faded in contrast to a tacky yellow as 
though it were far distant, not a reproduction of Phil-Lit, but its very self 
which, defying time and space, thrust itself into the midst of the luminous 
drizzle as if it were pollution engraving a statue. And if I left my apartment, 
at 
the end of the passage, set towards me like a band of scarlet, I perceived 
the front of a little EXIT sign which though only made of plastic, was of a 
scarlet so vivid that it would catch fire if a single ray of sunlight touched 
it. 

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