GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Sat Jun 12 08:40:21 CDT 1999


> rj (on the  respective 'you's of grgr one and grgr two):
>
> Sounds like the same "city" and the same "children" to me. Different
> "you" perhaps, different to the extent that Pirate and Pointsman
> identify, or individuate, themselves in the scheme of things, neither of
> them yet recognising that they (and we) are all doomed to our mortal
> consciousness and our consciousness of mortality regardless of our
> levels of diligence, loyalty, venality, upward mobility, Machiavellian
> scheming et. al. Neither delusions of paranoia nor of control will ever
> be enough to transcend.
>

Quite so I would say.  Though poor preterite are doomed universally and equally  in the
dance of death, dramatic effect requires intermittent individuation with regard to
fuckER  and fuckEE. (or at least that's today's reading)

                                                                                P.







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