From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:03:46 EST
Subject: Anything Goes


"And this vulnerability, and the threat of a peer's wounding, is what I
believe stops most adults from keeping a playfulness in their lives. Being
openly and spontaneously creative produces vulnerability because you are not
planning out your behavior ; it is Anything Goes. Maybe your creation will
suck, is the fear ; maybe my new plot twist will be particularly cheesy, maybe
my next dance step will make me look more awkward ; maybe I'll choke on my
half-witty ad-libbing. If such thoughts possess me, how willing will I be to
fully unleash my creative ability? How playful will I be? Being playful in our
society is an emotional risk for the post-pubescent. We become too self-
conscious for our own good and fear the appearance of ourselves coming off as
not being with it. Role-playing for most adults is dead, save for when they go
to work. Meanwhile, the kids are running around outside, becoming different
people every day : a cowboy, an injun, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher : animals
even!" --- Sister J. Smyle, The Politics of Play

"Re-appropriate discarded spaces, old technologies, forgotten arts. Collect
old tube radios, explore abandoned houses and buildings, make love under
bridge abutments, make music by banging together unidentified rusted objects,
make curtains out of shirts and shirts out of curtains ... Do not have a
destination. Walk at random. Ride a bus with a number you've never heard of
before, and get off at the end of the line. Select streets arbitrarily. Enter
a small diner you have never seen before, and order food you've never tasted.
Stay in a hotel for no reason. Walk into a forest and avoid all paths. Explore
sewer tunnels and utility conduits." --from "10-Point Program For Screwing
With the Programs"

"Give yourself to whomsoever desires you, take from whomever you please. What
evil do I do, what crime do I commit when, upon meeting some lovely creature I
say : 'Avail me of that part of you which can give me a moment's satisfaction
and, if you wish, make full use of that part of mine which may prove agreeable
to you'?" ---- Blanchot and de Sade

"Everything which happens to Justine also happens to Juliette, that both go
through the same gantlet of experiences and are put to the same painful tests.
Juliette is also cast into prison, roundly flogged, sentenced to the rack,
endlessly tortured. Hers is a hideous existence, but here is the rub : from
these ills, these agonies, she derives pleasure ; these tortures delight
her... Thus it is true that Virtue is the source of man's unhappiness, not
because it exposes him to painful or unfortunate circumstances but because, if
Virtue were eliminated, what was once painful then becomes pleasurable, and
torments become voluptuous ... He is a man possessed of every passion, and his
passions are slaked by any and every thing ... The absolute egoist is he who
is able to transform everything disagreeable into something likable,
everything repugnant into something attractive.  ... In order to be at the
mercy of nothing, it was necessary for him to experience everything." ---
Maurice Blanchot

"The pleasure Sade's heroes find in degradation never lessens their self-
possession, and abjection adds to their stature. Shame, remorse, a penchant
for punishment --- all such feelings are foreign to them." --- Maurice
Blanchot

"One might say that this strange world is not made up of individuals, but of
systems of vectors, of greater and lesser tensions." --- Blanchot

"Despite their total lack of nervous system, protozoa are also able to both
learn and remember." --- Michael Talbot

"Basically, we're made of bacteria and we are containers for bacteria." ---
Lynn Margulis

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