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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:18:08 EST
- Sender: New Ways of Thinking List <FNORD-L@UBVM.BITNET>
- From: General Mills <LIBALP@EMUVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Leisure Vilification
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 28 Jan 1993 09:50:28 -0500 from <helene@HLE.SMITHSONIAN.ORG>
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- On Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:50:28 -0500 <helene@HLE.SMITHSONIAN.ORG> said:
- >I honestly don't understand the central gist of what is happening here on
- >this list! Is this performance art? How can the real meaning of the
- >"metaphorical" messages be apprehended? I thought this list was supposed
- >to be about Doctors Leary and Lilly, Robert Anton Wilson, and others...
- >So far I haven't been able to recognize any messages here as being primarily
- >about these writers... can someone here explain this to me?
-
- 1) There is no central gist, just a vague aesthetic.
- 2) Performance art: Only if you slap meat against your head while you type.
- 3) They can't.
- 4) Sometimes it is; go ahead, but take care not to be a disciple.
- We have all eaten from the Tree of Fear.
- 5) Well, they weren't PRIMARILY about these writers. But they were all in my
- head with me the whole time, I swear.
-
- gm
-