Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)

[Paul Mackin]

The terrifying thing would be if they were REALLY lurking about.

		Prosaically, P.

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, s~Z wrote:

> Paul Mackin wrote: Having one's dead ancestors lurking about strikes me as
> quite terrifying. Doug M. wrote: They never really went away, did they?
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> 
> A few years back I went to see Henry Kaiser and David Lindley playing with
> musicians from Madagascar at McCabes Guitar Shoppe in Santa Monica. One of
> the players was a 90 year old codger who played a pennywhistle and whose
> picture appears on the Madagascarian paper money. Kaiser introduced him by
> saying that the music he played on his little flute was designed to evoke
> the spirits of the ancestors. Then then, he appeared at the back of the room
> and proceeded to jig up the center aisle pennywhistling in the dark like a
> madman, and sure enough there was the spirit of my paternal grandmother
> dancing just as furiously right behind him, swirling her flowered mid-calf
> cotton dress with her hands and clicking those open-toed black pumps like a
> pedotelegraph operator from the great beyond. Wasn't a bit terrifying, and
> her wink in my general direction was all I needed to know.
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