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- From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Re: this haiku has no title / Marek, cup the disgrace, Re: An Act of Kindness (was: Re: a rose-fingered...)
- Message-ID: <NIKOLAY.92Dec23022007@husc10.harvard.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:20:07 GMT
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- <6798@npri6.npri.com><NIKOLAY.92Dec22211904@husc10.harvard.edu><1992Dec23.054040.15595@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In-reply-to: marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of 23 Dec 92 05:40:40 GMT
-
- marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski) writes:
-
- > [a poem follows]
-
- > In article <NIKOLAY.92Dec22211904@husc10.harvard.edu>
- > nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
-
- PN
- >>At any rate, I have no interest in anyone's delusions except
- >>Plato's and my own...
- > ...
- >>I doubt that you have seen any of my verse, Bill, unless, of course,
- >>you read Russian and have access to Moscow periodicals and
- >>anthologies. If you did, though, you'd have a hell of a hard time
- >>trying to show
- >>that it doesn't scan.
- > ...
- >>No disclaimers. All the above opinions have been
- >>approved by the Harvard Board of Trustees and
- >>the Harvard Administrative Board.
- >>
- >>Philip Nikolayev
- >>nikolay@husc.harvard.edu
-
- ML
- > I have a hard time resisting not duplicating and sending that last
- ^^^ Learn thy grammar, poet!
-
- > claim to your university's Board of Trustees as well a its
- > Administrative Board as a courtesy. They should know their own
- > opinions, don't you think? It's a matter of integrity and
- > accountability.
-
- Go ahead, mail it, you itchy upright snitch; don't forget to
- attach an indignant petition for sanctions, signed by you and
- a howling host of other douchebags.
-
- ML
- > Incidentally, Mr. Plato fucked little boys in the arse, lots and
- > lots, so tells me a licensed historian (I know how licenses and
- > proofs of attainment are important to you, thus my qualification of
- > her qualifications). I only mention it because you asked what I
- > thought of child abuse.
-
- Gee, that was a month ago. Have you got some delayed-action ants
- in your pants, or what?
-
- ML
- > Well, um, I think it is a natural expression of Platonic love. As
- > long as Plato wears a condom and the child agrees, and the parents
- > and the community bless it.
- > Would you say that was Platonic of me? I am just concerned with
- > your delusions, Plato-dude, not with the world, which we all know,
- > is just a shadow, to quote that other Plato-dude, Mick Jagger.
-
- Tell that historian of yours to stick his license where the sun
- don't shine; or better still, ask him to post on the matter, and I'll
- sodomise the twit personally. But it's nice of you to acknowledge that
- you've never read any Plato and are valiantly tilting at imaginary
- windmills. Don't brandish your cardboard javelin at me, Marek. If you care
- to find out what Plato thought of sex between males, read his _Symposium_.
- And tell your hallucinating historian to peruse Dover's study of Greek
- homosexuality, so that he can satisfy himself that the ancient Greeks
- didn't fuck boys in the arse. You too should go and read some book, since
- you have undoubtedly scribbled more stuff in all your life than you
- have read. And keep in mind, you mumbling newly-fledged moralist, that
- Plato is the founder of the entire Western philosophical tradition,
- and you can't ignore him in the manner you would best be ignored yourself.
-
- > -- Marek
-
- > Merry Berry. I wish you'd post some of your Russian verse that
- > scans so we can see if you lied. Now that you post claims that are
- > not true, it is hard to give you much credibility, you know. So
- > help us rehabilitate you, Comrade Nikolayev. There may be no life
- > after literal death, but we sure can do miracles about bringing you
- > back from a literary one...
-
- Get lost, pukehead. If I posted some poetry here, do you think I would
- give a tipsy tinker's cuss about your opinion? Besides, I don't
- need any credibility, as I'm sure you've heard before.
-
- > this haiku has no title
- > -------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- > pretty girl
- > marek jumps to conclusion
- > end of haiku
- >
-
- Never tired of emitting elementary farticles, are you?
-
- > Marek Lugowski
- > 22 October 1992
- > Chicago, Illinois
-
- Philip Nikolayev
- nikolay@husc.harvard.edu
-