Today's Topics:
living hieroglyphs
We may end the war that is within all wars waged to end all war!!!
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Message-ID: <9004070820.AA18476@cs.NYU.EDU>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 90 04:20:41 -0400
From: est@cs.NYU.EDU (Eric Tiedemann)
To: Subgenius%mc.lcs.mit.edu@reagan.ai.mit.edu
Subject: living hieroglyphs
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 08:58:09 -0700
From: Brian Queen <queen@tahoe.unr.edu>
To: SubGenius%mc.lcs.mit.edu@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: MMEEMMEESS
William "Language is a virus"
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burroughs. Check out his insane book called
The book of breeeething
crazed talk about hieroglyphics being alive and the old man on
the mountain.
"The result was to produce a mystical and gnostic 'translation' of Genesis,
or rather, and Upanishadic paraphrase that was like some shocking vision of
cosmic space alive with terrific hieroglyphs--that got itself promptly
placed on the Index."
Benjamin Lee Whorf discussing Antoine Fabre d'Olivet's _La Langue Hebraique
Restituee_ (1815) in his "A Linguistic Consideration of Thinking in
Primitive Communities" (1936).
-est
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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 90 04:38:49 -0400
From: est@cs.NYU.EDU (Eric Tiedemann)
To: Subgenius%mc.lcs.mit.edu@reagan.ai.mit.edu
Subject: We may end the war that is within all wars waged to end all war!!!
'In identifying German society as a whole with this
revolutionary aesthetic, Eksteins has to be very selective in
his illustrations...When he suggests that the Kaiser's
pleasure in watching his Chief of his Military Cabinet
performing arabesques clad only in a ballerina's tutu
indicates that Wilhelm II "was inclined to look on art in
vitalistic terms", it is hard to tell whether he is being
ironic or totally humourless. To enjoy such a spectacle
demanded tastes which, though bizarre, were not ncessarily
"vitalistic". There was certainly something rum about the
whole affair. One cannot visualize Douglas Haig, at the
behest of Lord Esher, putting on a comparable performance at
the court of Edward VII. But how far was this *typical* of
the German officer class?'
Michael Howard reviewing Modris Eksteins's _Rites of Spring_
in the February 9-15 1990 _Times Literary Supplement_.
-est
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