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Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Wed Nov 20 09:23:14 CST 1996


Steely writes:
> For nearly two decades, I've wanted to pursue a course of study that would
> place comparative literature in a truly post-modernist context. I've longed
> for courses like: Racine (Jean) and Robbins (Tom): Less than Meets the Eye;
> Fra Angelico and Judy Chicago: six degrees of separation; Hadyn and Bud
> Powell: Anticipating Cool; How Green Was My Valley and Eraserhead:
> Adventures in the Cinema of HyperReality; the Briton Lay and the poetry of
> Charles Wright: the Hidden Links. I once tried to get approval for a
> masters thesis comparing Marlowe's Edward II and Faulkner's Sanctuary. I
> called it Sore Holes. No takers.

HAG suggests: 
> Why don't you come down here to the University of Zululand, Steely? Not 
> only do we offer a truly beautiful countryside, beaches and climate (not to 
> mention really cheap dope and some interesting people to smoke it with); 
> also, our rates are lowlowlow and we have a chancellor who'd probably 
> love to rap you over the head with his traditional weapon. Talk about a 
> hot spot - this is the place for you. Indeed, there can be no doubt. 
> Craig and I will design a course just for you. Think about it. The IFP 
> loves you. (Talk about a working vacation. Hohum hohum. Blablabla.) 

I suggest:
Yeah, and don't forget, not only do you get to live in the land of 
the IFP, you also get to live in a country with a really fun crime 
rate too!

Craig Clark

"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"



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