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Thomas Eckhardt schrieb:

> Kai wrote:
>
> > what gives me the feeling that all this
> >   doug-bashing (yes, i was into this too, but am turned-off by it know) has
> >   n o t h i n g  to do with pynchon?! kai


> Kai, are you seriously ill or something? Ich mache mir Sorgen...
>
> Grüße,
> Thomas


 no, thomas, i ain't ill (except for that fallsucht/'epilepsie' i've chosen  
 myself for this lifetime), i'm just, like jane put it recently, "tired of  
 gaming". and i definitely believe that people like malignd or david morris can 
 do better things for this list than dissing doug or his mother. not that doug, 
 back in the days, did not deserve it or that it wasn't fun. not at all. but how 
 long shall we play this game? another 5 years? or 10 or 15?! you know, recently 
 i read sloterdijk defining "hell" as the unability to expand ... so we're in  
 hell ... "this is hell, this is hell, i'm sorry to tell", as elvis costello  
 once sang ... same same, old old, over and over again ... and again ... and -  
 hey! - again ... guess we should ask for some karmic adjustment ... as the   
 (neo)reichian, i also am, i do not think much of apologies. yet what i believe 
 in is the possibility of - change ... nah, i ain't naive, working at a   
 department for technology assessment, i know very well, you can bet your sweet 
 ass on this, what social inertia actually is and how it is functioning ... in  
 its best moments, however, t h i s  list can  t r a n s c e n d  that  
 conventional narrowness which is so dominating in our late-late-late-society  
 ... yes, we all are hurt. yes, there are always again misunderstandings because 
 of clashing cultural patterns. yes, most tender creations get killed here by  
 ignorance and paranoia. just like everywhere. but then we ain't only thanatoids 
 but also - f r e e ~~~ "love is god/god is love/boys & girls love god above!" 
 (prince, 1988) ~~~ jan, by the way, he's walking now, and yella she wants, when 
 grown-up, do 3 jobs: diver, robotist, & soccer player ~~~ now there's some wind 
 in the trees before my window ~~~ yours in love: kai ~~~ ~~~ ~~~