FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread Eryk Salvaggio
Well ann, thanks for that lovely scenario; but what i was suggesting was not that anyone had a responsibility to hear anyone out but that it could in the long term provide a good deal of inspiration and could end up being worth the time. I by no means asserted that anyone should get raped in

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread ann klefstad
I called for no violence directed at you; I asked you to imagine such an event, as you seemed perhaps deficient in empathy. If you didn't see the post in question it may be difficult for you to speak of it accurately. It was very similar to an obscene phone call (which is not a prank phone

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread BestPoet
In a message dated 06/27/2000 2:49:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at Burroughs, Kerouac, Neil Cassidy, Allen Ginsberg. The beats took obscenity to a whole new level of art; perhaps the deterioration of the values in america and the world will now form a new

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread ann klefstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 06/27/2000 3:00:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kathy Acker's treatments of obscenity might interest you; they hold more interest for me than the rather stale patriarchal guilt/desire of, say, Miller. I think it

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread Sol Nte
Eryk wrote: Look at Burroughs, Kerouac, Neil Cassidy, Allen Ginsberg. The beats took obscenity to a whole new level of art I would say that only Burroughs worked with obscenity as any kind of concept and even then did he do more with obscenity than DeSade who predates him? Burroughs obscenity

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread Eryk Salvaggio
I considered the "lacking empathy" remark a dis, by all means, and found it an unusually strong reaction to a discussion of the phone as a medium. But hey, I guess you can pull that off when you're a list owner. In my experience I have been the target of several prank phone calls, including and

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread BestPoet
I have no idea what that had to do with me being a sociopath, but hey. Did someone call you a sociopath? Missed that, and certainly I don't think of you as a sociopath. But I do feel everyone is on a path of some sort. BP

Re: FLUXLIST: Dung beetles (was: Prank Phone Call Performances)

2000-06-27 Thread BestPoet
In a message dated 06/27/2000 10:30:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kathy Acker's treatments of obscenity might interest you; they hold more interest for me than the rather stale patriarchal guilt/desire of, say, Miller. I think it was Foucault who