GRGR(14) 305.10 : ' ROCKET LIMERICKS '

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >From: "Richard Romeo"
> >>
> >>Who needs a woman when you got a rocket?  Its a MANS
> >>world here.  Man and machine.
> >>
> >>David Morris
> >----------------------
> >2 asides:  one:  what about vibrators--who needs a man, right?
> >
> 
> Right! And who needs teeth now that we've got plastic?  And Ivory is such a
> nice substitute for fingers.  What's the rocket a substitute for?
> 
> DM


For LOVE. 

The rocket is a substitute for Love, for return, for
salvation, for redemption, for spontaneous, serendipitous
discovery of the endless cycle of love and life. The rocket
is systematic destruction, Its parabola structures "that
shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return." "Its
dumbness, its dead weight, its obstinate and palpable
mystery," is a false promise of power. The rocket is a
pornography, another plastic imitation. It breeds not love,
but paranoia. Paranoia, like Love is concerned with going
beyond the invisible, but paranoia is the exact antithesis
of Love in a world where opposites are unclear and the risk
of associating with anything on any side is great. So most
relationships here under the rockets spell are not based on
Love, but on exploitation, shallowness, cynicism,
information exchange. The treatment, the perception, that
humans are parts, replacement parts, rather than unique
beings militates against individuation through Love.