anti-intellectual-intellectual legitimation wank

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Sun Feb 2 09:52:01 CST 1997


Piece-a-work:

Form: B, Style: B+, but Mittelwerk, my boy, I'm afraid content is 
once again C. You seem like a smart enough kid (is this your mommie's 
aol account? I know that one aol account can have several aliases), 
but isn't there some corner of some teen-oriented newsgroup where 
children can play with (and perhaps eat) there own and others feces? 
Even if you're still in high-school, boy, there's plenty of 
opportunity for more than onanism, drugs, rock'n'roll,and books. Get 
out of the house. Get a life.

P-listers, why do I bother? Cause I don't want to take out the 
frustrations in my life on anyone I care much about, and I don't have 
a dog to kick. (Just joking about the dog, don't all you animal 
rights activists....)

On  2 Feb 97 at 10:11, Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:

> no wonder this list sucks . . . i didn't realize so many of you were
> so fucking old!
> 
> 'I was there at Berkeley, man, when the shit went down!  The REAL
> shit!  When they started serving that godawful Vegan sausage, man! 
> I though I was gonna puke . . .'
> 
> The way I sees it . . . this list has deteriorated (and LIKES IT!
> Jameson style, man, see, I understand the man, we were in Cam Lo
> together, man !
>  When the REAL shit hit the fan  . . . ') into three, uh,
>  dialectical camps:
> 
> 
> 1)  The BODY-COUNT camp:  the ones who know what it's like on the
> STREET! Who know about REVOLUTION and shit!  The Ones who were THERE
> when the shit hit the . . etc. . . . 
> 
> and
> 
> 2)  The I AM A, YES, I CONFESS, HA HA (erudite laughter), PYNCHONIAN
> WHO ENJOYS PERUSING HIS MATERIAL IN THE BEE-LOUD GLADE WITH MY THUMB
> LODGED SECURELY IN MY ANUS camp:  The Ones who have an inchoate
> sense of the WONDER and AWE of what the Master is trying to convey. 
> 
> 
> and thirdly, largely irrelevant, is 
> 
> 3) The HICK camp:  rural, pork-loving folk who don't know exactly
> what a TRACTOR or DAIRY-QUEEN or COP signifies, but know, in their
> fart of farts, that by GOD, it has something to do with that STRANGE
> and WONDERFUL thing we call America!
> 

My mother was of the sky... -- JL
My mother is the war...
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
Not having that, which having... :-(

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