Unethical Asset Manufacturing
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Sat Apr 26 13:55:42 CDT 1997
"Louse" is the word, all right, judging from the discussion I've monitored
here these many days.
>> two Books In Print entries are a masturbatory aid and a how-to guide for an
>
>I choose to hold my tounge about the rest of the slights, opinions I disagree
>with and facts I dispute -- but I'd be a louse if I didn't stand up for our
>author Mary Anne Mohanraj when she isn't here to speak for herself.
>
>"Torn Shapes of Desire" is what moved IAM from publishing computer software,
>videos and books into more literary works. I suggest anyone with an open
>mind about who I am and what my company is trying to do read my foreword to
>"Torn Shapes" at http://www.iam.com/tsd/tsd-foreword.html
>
>Most of the reviewers and readers of "Torn Shapes" would strongly disagree
>with your characterization of the book simply as a "masturbatory aid." It's
>a highly literary, very well written and quite tasteful collection Mary
>Anne's short stories and poems, a dozen photographs by Tracy Lee, essays
>about free speech by the three of us, and an interview with a panel of
>Internet erotica writers. Had the p-list encountered the book under
>different circumstances, I imagine many of you would like it quite well (and
>you still might). The book is better described (including many review snips)
>at http://www.iam.com/tsd.html
>
>dale
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Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
"A kind of side-effect of verse as a memory-storage system is speed: the
ability to compress tremendous amounts of emotion and cognition into a
little space. That is poetry." -- Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate.
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