From: "roger" <diogenes.jones-AT-comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Vio con dios, my darlins'
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:13:54 -0700


Erik wrote:

> I just came home this afternoon, after a two weeks holiday at our
belgian coast (with unusual high temperatures, so i even got a tan),
and i was contemplating my life as an anarchist. Three seconds later i
realised that in my case it is all in the mind. So whilst leading this
p(r)etty bourgeois life i also must admit i work for the state (well
they sort of pay me to get a PH.D. in art history on the subject of
the links between artists and anarchist thought and action in the late
nineteenth century in belgium) and still i don't feel like i'm
betraying some high ideal written in cApitals.
>
> So it's true you decide to do some work that seems incompatioble
with "anarchist action". So it's indeed true you are a REFORMIST, i
can't throw the first stone, and i don't even want to.
>

there's worse things in life than reform.  and i agree; those of us
who live in rock houses had best avoid throwing glasses.


> I'm glad i could be part of a bigger part of those nine years, and
if ever i would come near indiana i'll try to get in touch.
>
> See you on the list again in a couple of weeks
>
> Erik
>

maybe i'm getting old and misty-eyed, but i, too, have gotten a lot
from being a member of this list.  a lot of good folks and even more
right wankers have passed through.  still an interesting place and i
hope shawn and the gang can continue the thankless job of keeping this
cyber-space open and spam-free for us.  i suspect i would miss it more
than i care to admit.

hey Zprout, hot enough for you?  now you got a small taste of georgia
at high summer.  just too damn hot.

roger