From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 03:20:03 -0400



With a disgust I have learned to ignore, I propel myself among these
         pre-staged personalities, among these unending dependabilities, 
male and
         female humans, dogs, schools, mountains, quotidian and faded 
terrors and
         thrills. For a few thousand years now you put forth this axiomatic
         humanoid of Oedipus, propagate it like an obscurantist epidemic, 
the
         castration complex man, the man of the natal trauma, upon which you 
prop
         up your amorous encounters, your occupations, your neckties and 
your
         purses, your progress, your arts, your churches. I detest this 
natural son of
         Oedipus, I disdain and abjure his pre-established biology. And, if 
this is so
         because man is born, then all that is left for me is to abjure 
birth, abjure
         any axiom even if it boasts of the appearance of a certitude. 
Upholding like
         a curse this quotidian psychology-consequence of birth, we will 
never
         unearth the potential of bursting into the world extrinsic of the 
natal
         trauma. The man of Oedipus deserves his destiny.

                -Gherasim Luca (rendered from Romanian by Julian Semilian & 
Sanda
                                                                             
   Agalidi)





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