Today's Topics:
buzzard innards, pickled fried
Careful with those ego-boundaries
skreee is dead
Slack Is Dead?
well, i'm meeting with my congressman!!
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 10:00:52 PST
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To: eristocracy@eris.enet.dec.com
Subject: buzzard innards, pickled fried
From: DECWRL::"0003678587@mcimail.com" "Patty A. Hardy" 14 March '91 6:37 pm
To: Jon Callas <eris::callas>
Subj: buzzard innards, pickled fried
UPne 03/10 1457 Parents claim book promotes witchcraft
LAKEWOOD, N.Y. (UPI) -- Over a dozen parents have begun a campaign to remove
a third-grade reader they claim promotes witchcraft and the occult.
The group of 14 parents is being supported by about 140 other residents in an
effort to get the reader, entitled "Impressions," out of the classroom at the
Southwestern Central School District in Chautauqua County, just west of
Jamestown.
In one part of the book, a witch pushes a shopping cart in a store as she
reads her shopping list: "Six bats wings, worms in brine, ears of toads, eight
or nine. Slugs and bugs, snake skins dried, buzzard innards, pickled fried."
The witch, unable to find any of the items on her shopping trip, says it is
"a crazy store."
"You can consider it all benign or fanciful," Robert Edington, a leader of
the group, said of the reader, "but it's all part of the apparent overriding
theme of the whole curriculum.
"We found many entries about witchcraft and the occult and zeroing in on kids
fears," he added.
He said in the part of the book entitled "Witch Goes Shopping," it is
suggested that teachers discuss spells before reading the story, then create a
chant based on items on the witch's shopping list.
"We believe there is a desensitizing effect here," said Edington, who
decribes himself as a fundamentalist Baptist and a born-again Christian.
"Pretty soon, casting spells will seem so commonplace to the kids that, when
they're confronted with the advances of satanic groups on a darker level, it
will seem more acceptable. There's no shock value that would deter them."
School Superintedent Edmund Harvey said he sees nothing objectionable about
the books, which are being used as a pilot program in second and third grades in
the district.
"I don't see the series teaching anything about witchcraft or the occult,"
said Harvey, noting that last month the School Board decided to keep the
material in the curriculum. "I just don't see that. I consider it a good
literature-based children's reading series."
Harvey said that at the end of the school year, the district must decide
whether or not to adopt the pilot program on a permanent basis.
"I think there are people in this community who would say this is a
censorship issue," he said.
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Careful with those ego-boundaries
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 08:34:23 EST
Message-ID: <21693.669044063@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: William.Welch@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu
The Apollonian tragic hero, Pentheus, like our whole rationalist
culture, thought his boundaries were secure, his terrain clearly
mapped, his identity established. Rejecting the Dionysian rite, which
represents the violent tearing apart of all categories, he became its
victim. Disguising himself as a Maenad, or female worshipper of
Dionysus, he attempted to observe the ritual, but was himself mistaken
for the sacrificial victim, torn apart, and eaten raw. In short, his
ego-boundaries were violently breached, the sense of his identity
exploded into fragments that were then ground down into the primal
substrate of the Dionysan darkness which both underlies and overrides
civilization's attempts to elevate the concious object above nature.
Thomas McEvilley, writing on
Euripedes' "Bacchae" in Apocalypse Culture
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 22:46:47 -0800
From: Kareem Du Gristle <gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
Message-Id: <9103150646.AA22245@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: skreee is dead
now that cowgirl skreee is kinda goin nuts i would say. too much
lasell wear in style here at uc santa carla eh?
geek week in palm springs commences soon.....
yield to bob!
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 21:56:58 -0800
From: 66108000 <borneo@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
Message-Id: <9103150556.AA19524@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Slack Is Dead?
yeah, yeah... next thing you'll be telling me Val Kilmer is alive.
-Borneo
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 11:38:25 EST
From: Joshua Glasser <shadow!joshua@uu.psi.com>
Message-Id: <9103151638.AA04096@shadow.>
To: mc.lcs.mit.edu!Subgenius@uu.psi.com
Subject: well, i'm meeting with my congressman!!
FISH!
FISH, JR.!
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