V.V. 3--Time, place, and mirror-time
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 30 22:01:54 CST 2000
>From: "Mr. McChoakumchild" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>Schoenmaker,
>He is in fact going against the White Goddess, against Eve,
>against Nature and he unknowinging provides a clue to what I
>think is a very important theme. It's not the physical so
>much as the psychological, the cultural HUMAN chain that is
>being broken, this of course leads to the the "selling out
>of the human race." What Shoenmaker thinks is germ and
>nuclear, but is in fact, cultural and psychological.
>
>Brief digression on Prometheus:
>
>
>"I know, Profane thought. I am a descendent of schlemiels,
>Job founded my line."
>
>"Hey," called Mafia from the writing desk. "How do you spell
>Prometheus, anybody."
>
>Benny Profane "-in Union Square at sundown, blindfolded by a
>raging hangover and covered by a comforter of chilly pigeons
>who looked liked vultures-"
Terrance,
Would you please give the page # for this last quote?
Those birds again!
DM
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