the Voice of Steely

[LBernier]

     Craig opines
     
     > Reminds me of a photograph way back in a 1970s _National 
     > Geographic_, showing an Inuit hunkered down in his igloo for the 
     > night, playing with a battery-operated motor-racing track. One of 
     > the strangest and saddest photos I have seen.
     
     
     Why was this sad, Craig? - would you rather see the Inuit eating 
     chewing on some dried seal meat while his fat pregnant barefoot wife 
     sits next to him repairing his mugluks with a bone needle and polar 
     bear sinews?  Damn those third worlders (although Alaska was part of 
     the US last time I checked - or was this a Canadian Inuit?) who just 
     won't stay quaint and backwards!
     
     Jean.


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Subject: Re: the Voice of Steely
Author:  "Craig Clark" <CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA> at Internet_tco
Date:    12/11/96 8:56 AM


David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> writes:
     
> One of the most heartbreaking examples I've read about is the 
> passage in Paul Theroux's _Happy Isles of Oceania_ about Cook Islanders, 
> who once had a particularly appealing version of Polynesian culture, 
> vegging out on the sofa and watching imported porno videos....
     
     
"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent 
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"