pynchon-l-digest V2 #2081

John Lundy jlundy at gyk.com.au
Wed Sep 26 17:36:13 CDT 2001



Many years ago during my undergraduate days I saw a guy on campus with a 
t-shirt saying "Subvert the dominant paradigm".  I've always loved it.  It 
just misses out on being the best I've ever seen, which was this:


			EDITH HEAD GIVES GOOD WARDROBE

On Wednesday, 26 September 2001 18:50, lorentzen-nicklaus 
[SMTP:lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de] wrote:
>
>
>  not too long ago i saw a guy walking the campus with a t-shirt saying:
>  "overthrow capitalism and replace it with something nice!" ah, that's 
your
>  anti-globalization movement ... folks without ideas and guts ... the 
wish to
>  stand on the right side is not enough ... neither is your 'emotional 
pacifism'
>  ... the political and moral level of such silly statements is about the 
same
>  our german peace-movement expressed during the early 80s with the very
>  significant slogan "petting statt pershing!" (petting instead of 
pershing) ...
>  yesyes, liebchen, it's just another nightmare, and when they get us 
you'll be
>  asleep  ...
>
>
> Henry Mu schrieb:
> > "Kill for Peace"
> > The Fugs
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> > Behalf Of barbara100 at jps.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:35 PM
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: RE: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2081
> >
> > I don't know much about politics or history, but I know words, and this
> > idea that one can 'Fight for Peace' is an oxymoron.  It's also about 
the
> > STUPIDIST thing I've ever heard. The truth is only 'sad' because so 
many
> > of us still 'believe' it



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