Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:10:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Blancato <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re: nomad music



On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, crispin sartwell wrote:

> On Mar 20, 1996 17:09:17, 'Tom Blancato <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>' wrote: 
>  
>  
> >> >nonviolence (including strikes, fasts, protests, demonstrations,  
> >> >petitions, etc.) is about the *only* mode that any academe would
> seriously 
> >>  
> >> >consider in their own lives,  
> >>   
> >> i've been known to comtemplate violence; i had an early disastrous
> career 
> >> as an urban guerilla.  
> > 
> > 
>  
> well, i liked to blow things up, mainly heavy equipment.  but one night i
> managed to singe all the hair off my face while molotov cocktailing a
> backhoe in defense of my local environment.  i never did succeed in
> extorting my demands from the principal of my high school: an end to
> grading and compulsory attendance, as i recall, though my terrorist cell
> stank bombed the place to within an inch of its life (five years later, it
> still stank of drano and eggs).  and my grand plan to render the capital
> building uninhabitable by the same technique never happened.  i've calmed
> down and am now joe philosophy professor


Of course. It follows.

>and a bigger fan of nonviolence

A fan.

> (especailly as a strategy of resistance against myself). 

As a strategy. Of course.

>  
> crispin 
> 

Tom

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