James,
      thanks for the riddle...the answer is "the bourgeois mythos/ethos,"
pomo signals the exhaustion and disintegration of the bourgeois verbum...and
like you, i too repose in the hope that the left is right...tho fully
knowing the parturition, the regeneration of our narrative,  is like to be
fearsome.
...further, i'll take yer admonishment and beg pardon for my part...much as
i was provoked to it, i don't really think ill of professor cox,...and wish
hereby to retract my sharp remarks.

bob



----- Original Message -----
From: Stoner James <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: internet petition


> I'm not at all sure about the idea that left=academic=communist=jew
> hater=guilt.  Strange equation of equivalents.  I've been on this list
> for a year, as an observer, and I am always disturbed when conversation
> moves from Pound and Poetics to "mere" opinion and personal insults,
> but it is all very entertaining, for a voyer such as my self.  You
> people are far more intelligent then the way the banter has headed.
> Opinions are fine, insults are not.  It's just my opinion but its a
> leftist opinion.  A poem for y'all (a bit abstract but it works here.)
>
>
> Post-Modern Syllogism
>
> One truth has gone
> And now anything goes,
> It depends on where you stand.
>
> What is left is imminent,
> Contingent reality,
> Devoid of external fixed points,
>
> There is no grand narrative,
> Just fragmented souls
> With microscopic stories,
>
> Stories that are storyless
> And can not be told,
> A language of an I, and of its own.
>
> Ultimate reality is created
> By social reality -
> Just empty concepts and categories
>
> That extend nowhere,
> Except as arbitrarily assigned
> By the isolated mind.
>
> Thus two red apples are not red
> Thus two plus two is five
> Thus right is wrong and wrong is right.
>
>                                         Left is right of right.
>
>
>
> J. Stoner
>
>
>
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