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Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 15:14:32 EDT
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From: "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS >
Subject: Have a Perverted Day
Green Goddess is on GR4302's case again because she's doing Art and he's
doing Politics and will never admit it to himself and is probably wise innot
wanting to know the logic of the strategy and principles he is followingmuch
better than I had a right to expect from any of you, forget the fnords,thy're
going to have to stumble along in the derriere garde.
Art and Politics never got along except where Art got so domesticated itgot
lousier and lousier for three thousand years and only was allowed to staylousy
so long because the artists never knew they were supposed to be anything but
domesticated therefore lousy and they were all paid by the King or GreatNobles
when the King was too feeble to prevent the latter from existing. So forthose
three thousand years there were statues showing each successive King looking
like every other King and maybe on the King's left side the King's GreatWife
has her arm draped around his waist. Exactly twice somebody tried to screw
around with the rules. The first, Hatshepsowe, was a Queen which was notonly
theologically impossible, it got her called effeminate by her nephew and the
legitimate king, Dhutmose III, because she was squandering on great artinstead
of manly wars which got her and her lover killed in a palace coup. Thesecond
and last time was Akhnaten who not only ordered completely new art for hisnew
god in a lavish new city but insisted on being shown as ugly as he was; andof
all his straws the last wasn't marrying his own daughter, which his Normal
father and lots of other people did, but marrying is boyfriend who was alsohis
son-in-law; since the Egyptians invented not only circumcision but also
homophobia this made him history's first flaming faggot and just before the
death scene Nefertiti packed up and went home to mother.
Everybody who expects the Broad Masses to jump for joy over glasnost andbe
happy ever after was mistaken and Gorby was one of the few who lived.
The old Hellenes found you could make new art and give out annual Art
Critics' Awards, meaning they took slaves and politics for granted: TheAtheni-
ans had to make do with having The New York Times read aloud; there was notime
for ungentlemanly toil for the zoon whose hobby was called democracy.
Plato said, kill the artists except for a few domesticated ones my graduate
students will regulate for me while I turn my own attention to seriousmatters
of state. This is because when politics has got to be done the Right way orthe
Correct way, artists are nothing but troublemakers.
Stalin didn't say it but did it.
A lot of the time, though, you have a secure ruling class which liesaround,
munches grapes, parties a lot, and accumulates artists in warehouses. Show mea
great concentration of wealth and power, I'll show you tons of art reachingsky
high - that's the architecture - packed solid with art till things burst orget
squashed.
The United States of America produces 68% of the World Output ofliterature
and the fine arts.
I don't have to prove it, the figure can't be far off and just giving ita
percentage nicely expresses what art is for.
Art is Nice, even Robert Mapplethorpe.
Nice includes whatever adorns people who are Nice.
GR4302 from blind instinct knows he has got to fight Nice; if he's anygood
he's going to End Up...Nice. The only protection he's got is, the Critic,here
our Green Goddess, says "This is not merely aesthetically disgusting, whichis
artistically defensible, but aesthetically does not work, which is not.Worst
of all it is technically inferior. I don't know where GR4302 teaches Englishor
English Lit or Comp Lit or Comparative Studies or Cultural Studies but herein
my department at the Univerity of Greenstate he'd be dystenurated for sure
while I go merrily about my business until they Emeritus me." Green Goddess
knows from blind instinct that she has to be is Talented and she's a lotbetter
than that and she's going out of her way to teach artistically improvedwriting
to GR4302 who is merely Talented and it's only Raw Talent at that.
Let me before I become altogether undrugged get to Correct Politics.
Nice was invented by the Republicans after they seized power in theOctober
Surprise Coup in 1968. The two most effective Right Wing Reactionary devices
ever invented for terrorizing the slaves were:
1. Have a Nice day.
2. The Smiley face.
In the dark days of Nixon all the slaves had to say Have a Nice day toeach
other and the manager or whatever the boss was would return the salute as an
emotional dog yummy on rare occasions.
"I think those are Nice jeans, Danny."
"<uh> I think you look pretty Nice yourself, Sally."
"Why, thank you."
Sally is only trying to be Nice to the only organism everybody else is
allowed to ignore and refrain from having to be Nice to. This will look good
on Sally's Record if she has to fill out the application form for theKingdom
of Heaven but she knows it doesn't exist and just wants to be Nice ongeneral
principles: She fallaciously identifies Nice with Good and Good with Virtue.
Nice is almost the only word which is universally legal. It's as debasedas
anything in Orwell's Newspeak and a lot more treacherous because why should
any decent person have anything aginst Nice?
When They'd got all the slaves saying Have A Nice Day They fired your assif
you didn't. If you couldn't get fired because you were in school orsomething,
They had you Avoided & Shunned, the Hard Cops called you morally viciousand
the Soft Cops told you to go get a Shrink. A Shrink is a cop whose job iskeep-
ing you in your place so you make less trouble for your Betters and learn
Appropriate Behaviour in place of the Bad Habits you have got such that,this
is a blatant lie, you can actually BECOME one of your Betters, that is, IFYOU
REALLY WANT TO.
First thing you must do is, get rid of your lousy way of relating andpaste
a Positive Attitude on your puss at all times. The sum of squared attitudesis
not good enough. Shrins are the only large group of people authorized to lie
their heads off in the name of Science cuz it's Good For You,scientifically.
While you pay your Shrink your boss threatens not to pay you (so youcan't
afford to pay your Shrink) unless that Positive Attitude is worn at theright
angle every morning Inspection.
There is a technical term for this in sociogibberish, "emotional labor,"you
aren't paid a nickel more to do it but you can get paid nothing at all right
quick if you don't. If you are a woman you are more likely to lose yourhusband
than you would if a man lose your wife. Because sugar and spice andeverything
Nice is what little girls are made of. Wherever emotional labor is done,nearly
always it's a woman doing it. (Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart,
1982; The Double Shift, 1990.) There's plenty of male slaves doing officework
too, and they don't get persecuted as ferociously as women, but since themain
purpose of office work is wasting your time so you can't do anything elsewith
your life, there'll be some evening out.
There's also "feeling rules," (see Arlie Russell Hochschild again) so you
can't allow yourself to get caught not feeling the way a Nice or better yeta
Very Nice person oughta. Again, women are most easily caught, are subject to
jurisdiction of more rules, are supposed to be experts on emotion andfeeling
so men can do more important things, and know about unexpected greetingcards
and other Nice gestures. But watch, the office has now become The Basic Unitof
Human Community in society, you don't get along at the office (becauseyou're
not very Nice), you are socially dead. The man the women say is not veryNice
will go to whores and die of AIDS.
Well, I'm completely undrugged now, must say the few words I shouldastudk
to hours ago, and sleep. And by the way expect any future stuff to be this
boring or worse because I am dying for real where it counts. Got a lungdisease
for real, what it does is block the oxygen from getting across the capillary
wall, and if my hand turns bluish in chillyish weather and Normal people'sdoes
not then think of what is happening Upstairs where the brain is a bigglutton
for oxygen. Going retarded, Dr A said it was a psychosomatic disease forthree
years and what he was right about was, it is in the mind. Can palliate with
more dirty evil speed but cannot get it from him.
GO PERVERTED.
What is Perverted is not Nice, that all that is known about it. It doesnot
necessarily painful, not necessarily bad, not necessarily gross ordisgusting,
not necessarily homosexual, just that at some past occasion They decided to
make it Perverted. That's why I fantasize about, oh never mind.
The main thing is, Perverted whatever it is, is not Nice. The magnitudeof
the effect attacking Nice will have on Them will depend upon how importantit
is to Them that the slaves exibit inward and outward submission by being and
feeling Nice.
More t-shirts, buttons, etc.
HAVE A PERVERTED DAY.
KISS ME I'M PERVERTED.
<smiley face with mouth omitted>
PERVERTED SHOULDN'T BE PAINFUL.
FUCK ME, I'LL MAKE YOU FEEL EVERY WHICH WAY BUT NICE.
NOT NICE AND PROUD OF IT.
BEAUTIFUL IS NICE. PERVERTED IS BETTER.
NO HOPE NO FUTURE NOTHING GOOD ON NO MEANING SO...
LET'S GET PERVERTED.
I'M PERVERTED, JUST HAVEN'T GOT AROUND TO IT.
I'M PERVERTED, NOT KINKY.
PERVERTED IS SEXY, PAIN IS PAINFUL.
WANNA TRY THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE CANAANITES WITH ME?
PERVERSION IN COMPUTING.
VOTE PERVERTED, H. ROSS PEROT.
ANYTHING BUT CIGARETTE BURNS.
HAD ENOUGH KINLIER-GENTLIER, I'M PERVERTED FOR PEROT.
[We all hate Perot, who is stupid and ugly as he's mean and callous and a
sonofabitch, but white Republicans love him. We want him poorer, if not dead
at least lost, but we want Bush losing even more.]
The big booboo the Republicans made with Nice the first time out washaving
Richard Nixon as the National Leader to enforce Nice with a Rod of Iron. To
enforce Nice with a Rod of Iron you need a National Leader (maybe with aVeep
to wield the real power) who can at least fake being Nice. The second timeout,
the Second October Surprise Coup, 1980 - even when Republicans can win fairand
square they also Buy AND Steal the thing - they got the right candidate for
that part of the job, right beyond all expectations, but a hopeless retardfor
all other purposes. Speaking as a retard in the making I know one when I see
one. Gentlier and Kindlier Bush is not Nice, smart enough to wield power but
too stupid to know how important Nice was to the legitimacy of the regime,and
too blatant a liar. There are enough rich white Republicans who've hadenough
of the bullshit and like the honest-swindling shitkicker, Perot.
Have a perverted day,
Margbar Omrika,
Daniel A. Foss
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 02:37:34 EDT
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From: Juniper Sage <CHEATING@SBCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: avant natuerlich Sbrhym Vespucciland it
Somewhere I might find myself gladly travelling, indeed: Hello, GR4302;
your writing has become rather lovely in a placid and piecemeal sort
of way. Route 45 will take you South, should you choose to go South,
all the way to 'Bama and the Gulf, sliding entirely its length East
of the Mississippi. A road I would traverse again, if given the chance,
whether or not I was accompanied by the deflowered ghosts of visionaries
and their entourage, but, then, I've always been a bit of the romantic
-- as you reveal yourself to be as well, fronting your sublime brickwork
with stucco expletives and much doodling; I'd rechristen you our very
own Byron, if I could, but such beknighting comes under the domain
of the soon-to-be cryogenic H760. Perhaps an application might be
obtainable should you make your request with haste. And, DFOSS, thank
you for that mightily apperceptive update of how to combat the social
spectacle through the adoption of apocalyptic attitude towards purity;
I wish to request, if I may, that you indicate what steps to take when
the PERVERTED is absorbed, creepily. And, H760, would you please let
me know where you and M have gone? Have you taken your repartee offline?
Too much time has passed on HISTORY; I'm suspicious and must keep up.
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 13:14:44 EDT
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From: "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS >
Subject: Apology
People, please pardon the simplistic and uncaught-before-it-got-away
seventies garbage in that lump of dreck of two days ago. Times I think I'm
thinking but too Retarded to know I can't think any more and what's worsenever
could to begin with before Retardation.
Daniel A. Foss
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 22:46:50 CST
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From: GR4302
Subject: overton uptown bicycle sauce, one one
a piece to us all and steady hand. him him and who wamma wum bam woomiwo
i cannot sign zee papers cuz you have broken both my hands but thanks for
the cigarette anywya, now i know what oedipus must'a felt like. the dumb
motherfucker. if there's a stooby with the fry you k'n try. you can try
but it's gonna take a spear, i say it's gonna take a spear to get it out
and you caint get a license for that, no not in this state and i guess
that's why cuz with a gigg or what you could sure get it just sitting
there all fat and tasty and all but won't take a bite no not a bite
though you think it's doin' it and comin' yer way it's a-just checkin' it
out but 'twon't take a bite 'twon't not poone bit why you need a speer's
'zwut you'd need and you caint git no license for that not in this state
you caint.
a piece to us all and steady hand. and he say he gonna git it and if it's
gettin' it's goin' to be got and if you not gettin' it it's goin' to be
got however ever it is. i'm tellin...
a piece to us all and steady hand. and i'm a hearin'. one two...sorry
just couldn't make it to three...
a piece to us all and steady hand. both ring fingers down in three days
from a fit and from scrubbing away the sauce. four days wasted in anightmare
of excellent thought and no place to plug in my plooie. hurts too much not
to say hello. i suppose though that i should break this down and get while
i still have any fingers left to say what and i have to say, my story, if
you would, before i turn into gold 9 (yeah...right). i fear this connection
though. the next post will definitely be a continuation of this verythought..
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 09:33:00 GMT
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From: strangler <H.UNIATZ>
Subject: next to of course cheating cheating cheating cheating cheating
>And, H760, would you please let me know where you and M have gone?
>Have you taken your repartee offline? Too much time has passed
>on HISTORY; I'm suspicious and must keep up.
Yes, we have indeed taken our repartee offline. I mail him
postcards complaining bitterly of his adherence to metafictional
techniques which force me to defend himself to himself, the
indefensible to the indefatigable, and he mails right back
complaining with equal bitterness that I had not affixed postage
stamps of the correct value. I fear m'dear is like that, loved
like that, hated like that, dangerous like that.
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Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 14:43:00 GMT
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From: sepulchral voice <H.UNIATZ>
Subject: too hot too hot too damn hot
I think I died last night.
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Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 11:07:39 CST
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From: GR4302
Subject: re: death in east anglia
so it was you?
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Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 19:24:12 EDT
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From: "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS >
Subject: System message notification of userdeath
I think I died a week ago but wasn't logged on when the system notified me.
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Date: Sat, 23 May 1992 09:33:49 EDT
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From: Juniper Sage <CHEATING >
Subject: Re: Apology
In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
20 May 1992 13:14:44 EDT from <DFOSS@CCVM.sunysb.edu>
> People, please pardon the simplistic and uncaught-before-it-got-away
>seventies garbage in that lump of dreck of two days ago. Times I thinkI'm
Don't apologize, Daniel; I thoroughly enjoyed it. It brought me back
to excursions through several states in one day, both physically and
jentally, and hours spent reading Grove Press classics in bus stations.
Certain marvelous connotations, all told; still, I seriously doubt
that it would be possible to stumble through it all again in the same
manner with the benefits of hindsight (though such should read as a
tautology). What constitutes Perversion, however, is by nature extremely
topical; what might hold in the post-Carson age remains to be seen...
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 23:51:54 EDT
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From: Juniper Sage <CHEATING@SBCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: Desideratum
...and I begin to wonder, ever so slightly, if it now, as it appears,
begins to wane, ebbing gently back to a more slight, though no less
communal, flow of messages. And I note, again, that DFOSS has returned;
and I remind myself that correlation does not equal causation. Still,
the brief surge has been marvelous, restoring my faith in the abilities
of those with far too much time on their hands -- myself, duly included.
I had only intended to set myself up as Ringmaster for a short time,
until the faucet of noise had been turned a half-notch degree counter-
clockwise so that the patient, steady drip was eliminated. However,
I can see the attraction of this "obfuscatory" life; and while I'm
on the subject, I would just like to welcome C09615TI back to the fold
after visits to CREWRT-L et al., and commend consp04 for calling it...
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1992 01:40:45 EDT
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From: Juniper Sage <CHEATING@SBCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: Death and the Made in America
And, God bless this medium, I did in fact die for the whole weekend.
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Date: Sat, 30 May 1992 17:47:00 GMT
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From: Strangler Aagonschmidt <H.UNIATZ>
Subject: Re: RSVP
GR, I'm happy that you should write a book, and, GR, I'm
happy that you should be a strawberry, and, GR, I'm happy.
H.
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