Fritz Mondale, Earth Day 1970

[Monte Davis]

You said it, Laura! Ebola's getting a fine ride, looking for some popular
food stand in Lagos, maybe even an unscrubbed cranny in some jetliner's
toilet.

" Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke,
alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery,
permeating, surprising, more than the color of winter sunlight,
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taking over not so much through any brute pungency or volume as by the high
intricacy to the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror’s secret by
which—though it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off—the
living genetic chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some human
face down ten or twenty generations . . . so the same
assertion‑through‑structure allows this war morning’s banana fragrance to
meander, repossess, prevail. Is there any reason not to open every window,
and let the kind scent blanket all Chelsea? As a spell,
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against falling objects . . . .
​"​


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:38 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Aww, Fritzi, the microbial majority loves us! Aside from that minor,
> short-lived antibiotics snafu we've tossed their way, we're the most
> efficient transport system and living environment they could ever have
> invented.
>
> Laura
>
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> From: David Morris
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> Sent: Aug 23, 2014 8:46 AM
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> Subject: Fritz Mondale, Earth Day 1970
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> http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/The_Weekend_8_22_14
> I wonder what  would happen if we sent out a questionnaire -- which.
> incidentally, is one of the things we do best in this country --to all the
> other animals in the kingdom asking whether or not they would be upset if
> their brother, homo sapien, were to disappear from the earth. My guess is
> that we would get back a nearly unanimous answer that not one among them
> would shed a tear for our passing, since we have created such an unlivable
> environment for them...Except,maybe. the dog who is sort of the Uncle Tom
> of the animal kingdom.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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