Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 00:50:17 CST 2007
On 12/15/07, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> and (growing out of that) the socially aware
> "the capitalists who ordered the building of the tunnel
> foresaw cold stone, (similar to their own hearts, one might add)
just to make the implicit recursion explicit -
those who dig into the emotional lives of capitalists
would quite likely find them other than cold and stony too!
In fact, the adversarial stance taken by Webb, for instance,
prompts passion on Vibe's part. The Nixonian ramblings of
Vibe in his Wall Street stronghold show mawkish sentimentality
intermingled with purity-of-essence ruminations and bloodthirsty
racist paranoia -- gouts indeed of steam ready to scald the miner
for his heart of gold (sorry, couldn't resist)
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