Fw: GRGR (21) - The Toiletship (WAS society & streamings (was: Theatre/Theater))

[Tiarnan]

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From: Tiarnan <ocorrain at esatclear.ie>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: GRGR (21) - The Toiletship (WAS society & streamings (was:
Theatre/Theater))


> Or we could be locked into Borges' library. Infinity has no centre or
> personification. I know, having waited for buses in Dublin. Infinity bein'
> the
> endless proliferation of non-meaning.
>
> Taking the WCS )as true Germans would no doubt abbreviate it(, could it
not
> (timidly) be a schtab at the fundamental delights of Anglo-Germanic
humour?
> American hyperhygiene being (despite its coy rationalisms) a teenage sulk?
>
> Thinking of the wonders of the colonies, where the drugs are not coloured
> like death. Where a man can unhitch his breeches in the infinite backyard,
> in knowing defiance of next door's lace bonnet?
>
> Not that society doesn't exist in the colonies, just that one doesn't have
> to give
> a shit about it.
>
> T
>
> > The subdividing of all categories into finer and finer specifics is an
> attempt
> > to "harness" the "Creation."  "Harness" means engineering, making
useful.
> This
> > subdividing is also a method of "ordering" the world ("Order" here might
> > conjure up a Dominatrix Librarian).  The "ordering" of course being just
> that,
> > a military command to line-up and salute.  The ideals of the one
> categorizing
> > shape "reality."
> >
> > The T-ship is hilarious because of the "ordering" implied.  It is
> ludicrous to
> > conceive of "specializing" toilets to special ships.  Human nature at
its
> most
> > basic precludes the concept.  Doesn't the Toiletship imply the removal,
or
> at
> > least reduction, of toilets on all the other ships?  Otherwise we'd
merely
> have
> > excess.  It seems the T-ship is meant for a "special" kind of leave:
the
> > Shit-Vacation.  This would imply also some very prolonged "holding-it"
> between
> > leaves (talk about anal-retentive society!).
> >
> > This would be society which had decided to direct ALL functions into
there
> > "most useful" arrangement:  When it's time to shit one should make the
> most of
> > it, a real "Shit Holiday!"  But Vacations have their function (no
> "permanent
> > vacations" here).  Sooner or later one must get back to WORK!
> >
> > NO SHIT!
> > (But NOT (that means Lots-O-Shit before) 'till after Mardi Gras!)
> >
> > David Morris
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