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lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 3 08:24:39 CST 2000
David Morris wrote:
>
> >From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
> >I don't agree. What's "millisonic"?
>
> Please, please, just drop this inquiry! And kai, please refrain from such
> inflamatory adjectives....
>
> BIG PAINFUL SIGH !!!!
>
> David Morris
Sticks and stones will break glass homes
but names should never arm you.
I miss Mr. Millison too Kai, but there are more appropriate
ways to express your pinning. Maybe a poem or a song. Like
those singing duelists in GR. The Kazakh musical broil
(356-57) or, more to V. now, the staging of Martin Fierro
((610-11) by the anarchists of Argentina. In the singing
duelists, which could very well have ended in "a village
apocalypse" but ends in "a comic cooperation" of insults,
not unlike the elephant insults in these Stencil
impersonations, the parties part without coming to any
resolution (sustained agonistic paradox, this all happens in
a mandala of humanity), but in the drama, something else
happens, where again we have the duel of opposites, two
wandering singers, one is black and one is white. What
happens? Do they part without ever resolving the payada (or
contrapunto: an extemporaneous poetic contest of question
and answer among the Gauchos)?
A student was stabbed on my corner last week, "A White Face
Jacket", that MTV is pusher, I can almost imagine sitting in
a theatre and seeing the black outlines of T's binoculars on
the screen, but this is how Pynchon's allusions, symbolism,
extra-textuals make sense for the reader (this white
brother/half/black brother, is Cain and Able, Parzival and
all that repressed desire to murder something black inside
the white self), but we can, not saying we have to, we can
read Martin Fierro, and what does Borges say about that,
that Racism, not what Pynchon says.
Sticks and stones may break glass homes
but names should never arm you.
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