Fritz Mondale, Earth Day 1970

[jochen stremmel]

"Adam
had ‘em."


2014-08-23 18:02 GMT+02:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:

> 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,
> ​
> 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,
> ​
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> From: David Morris
>>
>> Sent: Aug 23, 2014 8:46 AM
>>
>> To: P-list
>>
>> Subject: Fritz Mondale, Earth Day 1970
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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