Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Alex Colter]

Certainly don't have to be elderly to be in a near vegetative state, dats
dun wither influx of der media, yknow, disses maxe us zombies

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> My own twisted theory about why our culture is so awash with zombies and
> vampires is that we are, in effect, awash with the undead - the elderly.
>  Those who are in near vegetative states; those whose minds are still
> active but whose bodies are wasted by disease and paralysis;  even those
> who have no quality of life, and are living impoverished, lonely lives with
> no way out -- they're the living dead among us.  With assisted suicide
> inaccessible to all but a few, there's nothing we can do to help them, and
> we dread the inevitability of becoming them.  This suppressed dread
> surfaces in the form of crap zombie and vampire schlock.  Better to face
> reality.
>
> Laura
>
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> ----Original Message-----
>
> From: Ian Livingston **
> Sent: Jul 20, 2012 12:41 PM
> To: rich **
> Cc: Mark Kohut **, pynchon -l **
> Subject: Re: Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?
>
> It's that darned apocalypse again, that exhibition of the worst in us, in
> which we thrill to news of suffering. Yes, we honor the vampire, for the
> vampire is us. And when we recoil in horror at human beastliness, we reveal
> also that which is good enough to care....
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:30 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> no, i thought some douchebag destroyed families, parents, and lives.
>> what is it with tis country of ours.
>>
>> remember being a literary conference where the speaker was droning on
>> about trauma like it was some loving fetish for like literary critics
>> to pick apart and discuss. I found the whole discussion rather
>> distasteful and vampiric
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Donovan Tate was in Theater 9 during shooting. The unreality of it
>> happening
>> > in a movie: "I didn't think it was gunshots at all."
>>
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
> ********
>
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