you gotta name girl?

Terence lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 27 10:19:38 CDT 2000



s~Z wrote:
> 
> ".....and sharpen their teach in points to bite her in the ass,"
> 
> I felt this was what many grad school professors were doing.

Sarcasm, I think Jung said, or some one said about him, is a
defense mechanism against the assault of the archetype,
against the "God" who held him in thrall. 

Maybe Answer to Job

"Sarcasm is certainly not a pretty quality, but I am forced
to use even means I find reprehensible in order to deliver
myself from the Father...sarcasm is the means with which we
hide our hurt feelings from ourselves, and from this you can
see how very much I would have preferred to remain a child
in the Father's protection..."

For the Irish, it is a pretty quality, pretty damn good, how
else but in marriage and wit can an Irishman stay sober and
sane when he thinks upon the victims of incomprehensible
evil? Jung cherished the anxious hope that meaning would
preponderate and win the battle, but sarcasm, much as it
offended his protractors, even himself, is a 
quality worth its weight in words. 


oh i am just a vagabond
a drifter on the run
and eloquent profanity
it rolls right off my tongue
and i have dined in palaces
drank wine with gods and kings
but green
sweet green eyes 
you the best thing I've ever seen
won't you roll be easy....



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