Chasing ... Cutting

Terrance Flaherty lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 6 17:20:19 CDT 2000



jbor wrote:
> 
> ----------
> >From: "Terrance Flaherty" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> 
> >
> > jbor wrote:
> >>
> >> The constant identification of homosexuality as a sexual aberration,
> >
> > No! I have never posted such nonsense.
> >
> snip
> 
> I believe you have. This, from yesterday, par exemple:
> 
> >From: "Terrance Flaherty" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >Subject: Re: Liberation? (was Re: Cutting ... )
> >Date: Tue, Sep 5, 2000, 11:06 PM
> 
> > The 175s do indeed feel close to death, in fact,
> > they Worship it.
> 
> snip
> 
> > it is Death that they worship,
> > these guys are a counter culture, a collective of brothers,
> > but they have been sickened,


Yes, I posted it and I stand by it. I compared them with
another group in the book, remember? Also, once again you
cut out the most important (to you anyway) sentence, the one
that says, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE HOMOSEXUALS....

The questions remains, why do the 175s experience their
"liberation" as a banishment? 

Why are they homesick for Dora? Why, on the same page, is
Blicero/Weissmann described as he is?



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