(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 13:21:01 CDT 2010
Only the boring get bored.
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. --jg ballard
>
> can't say i disagree
>
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, really. Ballard's outlook was way too rosy. He saw apocalypse not as a
>> problem but as an opportunity.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net>
>> To: "'rich'" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; "'Carvill, John'"
>> <john.carvill at sap.com>
>> Cc: "'P-list'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 10:07 AM
>> Subject: RE: (l NP ) great speech Mr Obama
>>
>>
>>> Rich recalls Ballard's
>>>
>>>> time and space terrorism, mineral and motorway pornography, exhausted
>>>
>>> minds and environments, dead astronauts orbiting a dying world in dead
>>> capsules, bio-art, sleep, deserted cities of the heart, and an
>>> abandoned century...
>>>
>>> It's the 21st century now, Rich, things are going pear-shaped. You gotta
>>> let
>>> go of all that feel-good nostalgia.
>>>
>>> -Monte
>>>
>>
>>
>
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