Last word

[Jan Klimkowski]

Sorry to do this folks, but I really feel I have to respond in public to 
that last invective of Cal's, which has finally - some 30 hours later - 
reached the good ol' UK:

Cal wrote:
>Excellent. Now why don't you tool down to your roughest part of town, buy
>some smack & shoot up while reading Naked Lunch. Then you tell me if it
>doesn't do any harm. Lissen, oh wordly wise one, I have a very colorful
>drug background, most of which stemmed from exactly the attitude you seem
>to convey. Getting hooked on heroin didn't do one friggin' thing for my
>appreciation of Burroughs, Jim Carroll, or (much later) Kurt Cobain.
>However, spending six hours on my knees in a dirty bathroom, shivering and
>vomiting, did make me realize the danger irresponisbile advocates of
>drug-use.

I shall ignore the personal abuse, but merely wish to state that I think on 
no reading of the relevant correspondence could I be construed as advocating 
use of Heroin.  Indeed, I believe Heroin to be both one of the death drugs, 
and a drug of control.  Cultures where Heroin is the dominant drug are 
almost all notable for having structures of power even more naked than those 
of the mainstream world.

I hope this is plain enough.

I'm all for E-mail being freewheeling and full of the play of ideas, and 
more than a little barbed on occasion,  but it would help if we at least 
tried to be accurate in our representation of the views of others....

Sisterly
jan