Classic Books Re-packaged

[Bekah]

Hi  Hopeless,

Post-post modernism is  watching your own demise "as it happens," 
courtesy of live televised reports, talking heads and all:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1793338,00.html

how ghastly!

Bekah



At 8:20 PM -0400 9/22/05, Joe Allonby wrote:
>Yes, I'm a hopeless postmodernist who likes Japanese surrealists and 
>posts on Pynchon list. I am truly damned. Please, abuse away.
>
>Peace,
>Joe
>
>On 9/22/05, Joel Katz 
><<mailto:mittelwerk at hotmail.com>mittelwerk at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>this is disgusting.  you should never have been allowed to read.  now look
>at you.
>
>
>
>>From: Joe Allonby <<mailto:joeallonby at gmail.com>joeallonby at gmail.com>
>>Reply-To: Joe Allonby < <mailto:joeallonby at gmail.com>joeallonby at gmail.com>
>>To: Dave Monroe <<mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com>monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>>CC: <mailto:oilymicro at gmail.com>oilymicro at gmail.com , 
>><mailto:wmacfarl at gmail.com>wmacfarl at gmail.com, 
>><mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: Classic Books Re-packaged
>>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:32:35 -0400
>>
>>OK, now a politically incorrect response to all of this. I'm sure that you
>>will all hate me.
>>
>>When I was a young child in a working class home with both parents working
>>full time jobs, hard-cover editions of the classics were expensive. We ate
>>macaroni and cheese and I'm allergic to dairy products for
>>chrissfuckingsake.I had a library card and I was (with my sisters) not just
>>encouraged but required to go to the library and withdraw at least one book
>>per week. Still, it was important to have books actually in the home that
>>we
>>owned. So my parents mail-ordered the Readers Digest Condensed Classics.
>>Yes, they were inferior. I got to read works to which I would not have been
>>exposed otherwise. I'm sure that they were in my public library, but I wuld
>>not have taken it upon myself to look for them if I were unaware of their
>>existence.
>>
>>So, there is a place for this sort of thing.
>>
>>You may trash and flame me now.
>>
>>Peace,
>>Joe
>
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