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RICHARD ROMEO RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org
Tue Jul 30 11:50:00 CDT 1996


" How are THEY supposed to control a

population that knows it'll never die?  When that was always THEIR last

big chip, when THEY thought THEY had the power of life & death."

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I think we should realize first who is the speaker of these quotes (Zoyd? 
Mucho? I don't remember) and second what the hell does a "population that 
 knows it'll never die" actually mean now?  Is TRP just giving further 
evidence of these boys refusal to grow up, nostaligic for their 
acid-inspired years, so much rambling crud for us living in the bleak 
80's.  or lamenting for his past gone by?

In my garbage head days, hey I knew that feeling but it's gone now.  What 
is the dividing line between childhood and adult-dom:  "the recognition 
of death".  What is the dividing line b/w adultdom and wisdom:  "the 
acceptance of death".

Curious as to whether TRP will have much mention of drugs in the next 
opus? 



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org










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