blaming Clinton-(Terrance)

[Dan Jizzenberry]

I'm starting to think that there is actually only one member of the p-list 
and that he/she/it spends most of the day screaming at the myriad voices it 
has created for itself. Which leads me to believe that systems-building 
through paranoia is the closest thing we have to theology nowadays.

"...paranoia is the pathology of organization."

                            - Jean Baudrillard


"The ice-cream truck in my neighborhood plays 'Helter Skelter'."

                            -Stephen Wright


From: John Lundy <jlundy at gyk.com.au>
Reply-To: "jlundy at gyk.com.au" <jlundy at gyk.com.au>
To: 'Dan Jizzenberry' <pantychrist at hotmail.com>, "pynchon-l at waste.org"  
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: RE: Re: blaming Clinton-(Terrance)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:26:58 +1000

Dan's on to something and he doesn't even know it.  I think Doug is David 
Morris.  Let me explain.  I used to edit a newspaper once which had a really 
lame, softcock letters page.  To foment vigorous debate we came up with the 
idea of inventing two hostile correspondents, a left-leaning Irish Catholic 
called Hugh O'Byrne and a patrician old Tory called Geoffrey Smythe-King.  
They tore into each other for months and it worked beautifully.  Within a 
fortnight hundreds of letters of support and denunciation of the pair of 
them came roaring in.  Circulation soared.  The only problem was this:  I'd 
deputed one of my reporters to craft both sets of letters.  He came to me 
one day, exhausted and in tears saying "I can't go on anymore.  The problem 
is, I like them both.  I see both their points of view.  And the horrible 
thing is that there's no avoiding that both of them are me!"  In true 
Australian journalistic tradition I took him out for a few beers and 
promised to fix it.  The next day I put an item on the letters page saying 
that because Messrs O'Byrne and Smythe-King were clearly rude, insensitive 
men unwilling to listen to anyone else they were banned from having any 
further correspondence published.  Their supporters
wanted to hang me! I was fielding abusive calls telling me that I was a
fascist and a danger to the very freedom of the nation for months. The
real author never got over it.  His wife told me long after that he went
from a man of entrenched, dogmatic black and white opinions to a simpering 
fence-sitter because it was impossible for him not to see two sides of every 
story.  Ultimately, I think as a direct result of all this, he embraced 
Buddhism.  I believe it helped.  My personal role in his turmoil is a burden 
of shame I will carry with me always.

Anyway, own up Doug/Dave.  The game is up.

John


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