Thanks, Peter That's an interesting response I have given a little thought to the why / how of your experience. Havn't got very far! Maybe it's something affecting all of us that I have referred to - the biologist / journalist Steve Jones wrote recently that Blair is building a society based on "faith-based surveillance"! However that may be, thanks for the comment
L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Ciccariello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Strange signs are pulled away in a series of incentives. > This one seems to work very well Lawrence. > I don't quite know why, but it has a moving power to it. > Especially the last stanza. > > > > -Peter Ciccariello > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence Upton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:35:41 +0100 > Subject: Strange signs are pulled away in a series of incentives. > > See this. Men, with tiny love, are drinking. They are observant. How > beautiful is this? > > It is very beautiful. Strange signs are pulled away in a series of > incentives. > > The arrogant ones, used to extensive feeling, build multi-storey > suspicions, > surrounding almost every speech with speedy hostilities. > > The miserable ones sit quietly, watching, in a brightness, aware that > they > are being watched. Both types, and there are others, teach themselves > good > stories which they have made up themselves, imploring they know not > whom, as > if in prayer. > > They sometimes raise their inner voices as they hurry down fearful > corridors. They look at their watches in moods of admitted defeat. > > Surveillance is mucky. The rattle of windows can alter intelligence > reports > in almost every detail. It is inevitable, given the smell of the > selected > targets. > > They are beautiful because of their social emptiness. They are beautiful > because few think anything. Each can be whatever you want. What would > you > like to do to them? >
