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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Path: sparky!uunet!alembic!gypsy
- From: gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte)
- Subject: Re: short shameful confession
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.044557.15577@alembic.acs.com>
- Organization: the church of the latter-day polish amazons
- References: <pjlkr7o@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:45:57 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <pjlkr7o@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- >---
- >
- >So I should run out and buy them, right?
-
- right.
-
- >Materialism versus social responsibility.
- > Music versus politics.
-
- fuck social responsibility. if you had lived
- a hundred years ago and wanted a luxury item
- like that you would have had to beg your husband
- for it. you made the money yourself. spend it.
- enjoy it.
-
- either that or send it to me so i can buy a suit
- for job interviews so that i can make enough money
- to buy myself luxury items, in which i promise to
- revel, experiencing never even a microscopic twinge
- of guilt.
-
- m
-
- and i don't give my money to homeless people either.
- --
- "...at night they lurk outside the tall barrier staring with curious
- wild eyes into the flat field, feeling cheated." -- Beryl Markham
-