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From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can we think about the flowers
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:45:01 PDT




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>>Can one, without romanticising, mystifying nor with tongue-in-cheek, 
live
>>professionally? In other words, can one make a living, living?
>
>>David Fussell 
>>Unemployed.
>
>Licking the salt-block, not biting my tongue, with locks waving not 
shorn
>short, I would have to ask about 'professional life'.  (Residues on a
>sheeps arse.)  Is this to do with occupation, with what we occupy and 
how
>we stake space?  Or is to do with merging into the mask of the 
discipline,
>bundying on and off with the clock?  What would these technologies of
>constraint do to ourselves and the images we project onto others?  As 
if
>the mask was separate from the wearer, as if the wearer did not become 
with
>the masks they wore.  Why not let your hair down, are you bald, or your
>hair too well trained to comply?  (What value the image?) Is it to get 
a
>publication track record or be nice, oh so nice, to the parisien 
idiots? 
>I'm sure paris is lovely and that some of the publication seekers will
>tweek my dials but that wasn't the point, was it?  I've always 
considered
>myself an amateur in several ways, and this is reinforced by my lack of
>ability to attain a job (never did learn to be a mealy-mouthed brown
>tongue) which has little to do with the stated job criteria but is more
>about hairstyle, being the right stuff, etc.  Being studiously occupied
>would be something else again (don't have to attach a photo, yet.)  On 
the
>other hand there is a different experience inculcated by hand to mouth
>contact with the profession, to actually see the moves and the 
linguistic
>resevoirs as they take place.  To come in contact with the subtleties 
and
>overlappings, convergences of the flows. To feel the weight (Millet) of 
the
>eclectic examples and grammatical 'certainties'.  To hear the 
ineptitude
>and lack of foundation if the safety net of (say) economic rationalism 
is
>questioned.  Problem is not to let it return as foot in mouth disease.  
To
>break feet and not Monica.  Personally I prefer to make declarations of
>independence rather than to suffer from them (yes I'm pathetic).  And 
to
>continue to live, although not easily, is then to be one step from 
death on
>the border of the profession.  A risky business living in no-mans 
land...
>
>Authentic fiction, or fictive authenticity, or something else again, or 
...
>I'm not sure I know.  Do you?
>
>Hypatia
>w0rker
>
>
Yes, they are even envious if you are not competing for their jobs. "Do 
you know where there is a garden I can work in?", as Peter Sellers asks 
in its simplistic profundity(...in "Being There"). It is interesting 
watching the rise of the Flaneur in the United States. I'm glad we have 
some French history of this, because these crazy motherfuckers are 
serious. I counter-actualize their shit with the Bulgarian tenet: "They 
can't pay us as little as we'll work for them."

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