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February 25, 2008
In this issue:
Note from the Editors: In April of 2007, we mourned the loss of our 18-year-
old feline companion, Bijou, and the genuinely kind, humanist, octogenarian
writer, Kurt Vonnegut. Less than one year later, we did not anticipate, nor
could we have prepared for, the death of Bijou's 17-year-old son Luigi, and
more tragically, the loss of our dear friend and Swans contributor, Phil
Greenspan. We share our thoughts on this other genuinely kind, humanist,
remarkable man who will be sorely missed. We are also republishing Phil's
final essay of January 14, and have posted a link to his page with the
collection of 129 essays he had been relentlessly submitting since June 2001.
Last night, the weather turned to gale-force winds and torrential rain that
reopened the leaks in the ceiling and, along with the two frightened 80-pound
dogs on the bed, kept sleep at bay. This morning, the 15-minute drive to town
for the Sunday New York Times left us empty handed, the delivery man having
gone MIA about four days ago. Our Internet connection is spotty; everything
seems askew right now -- but for the new life breathed into the American
Duopoly Bowl by Ralph Nader, who will wage war against corpocracy on behalf
of the unrepresented majority till his last day, despite being dismissed by
the mainstream media and vilified by the so-called Left. Carol Warner
Christen provides a chilling overview of the degree to which our
constitutional life has been privatized, and this is not a modern phenomenon.
In fact, corpocracy can be traced back to Benedictine Rule -- read Michael
Doliner's fascinating explanation. And on a lighter corporate note, Jan
Baughman considers war profits, formaldehyde trailers, and the new American
Dream.
Culturally speaking, we hear from Martin Murie on how Simone de Beauvoir --
and his headstrong wife Alison -- helped him break free from a sexist world;
Peter Byrne shares a wonderful report from London on London; Charles Marowitz
waxes poetic on a few famous artistic types he'd rather not have as pals; and
Guido Monte's experimental poetry is accompanied by a superb Giuseppe
Zimmardi collage. We close with your letters, and our Martian Blips on the
many facets of libertarianism and the end of a rEVOLution, prime stupidity,
Sarkozian vulgarity, and more.
This has not been an easy edition to produce, to say the least. But it has
given us pause to appreciate the unique and passionate individuals whose
writing graces these pages time and again. The daffodils are in bloom, the
hills are green, and as we keep telling each other for sanity's sake, we need
the water...
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http://www.swans.com/contrib/pgreen.html
Philip Greenspan on Swans - In Memoriam
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/jeb187.html
A Word About Philip Greenspan - Jan Baughman
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/ga248.html
A Loving And Magnificent Human Being - Gilles d'Aymery
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/carenc30.html
One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - Carol Warner Christen
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/mdolin30.html
A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - Michael Doliner
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/jeb186.html
Poor And Pickled - Jan Baughman
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/murie45.html
Second Sex - Martin Murie
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/pbyrne63.html
London Laughing - Peter Byrne
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/cmarow99.html
Artistic Types - Poem by Charles Marowitz
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/gmonte38.html
Katábasis - Poem by Guido Monte
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/desk066.html
Blips #66 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/letter134.html
Letters to the Editor
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