File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2002/lyotard.0203, message 6


From: "fuller" <fuller-AT-bekkers.com.au>
Subject: A haha.
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:58:31 +0800


Here is something forwarded to me. I apologise if you have already received
it. Even if I reach one person with my message then I know I have served a
purpose...
I think I smoke too much to have bad taste.

Glen.

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French Intellectuals to be Deployed to Convince
Taliban of Nonexistence of a Deity
>
The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when
the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of
crack French existentialist philosophers into the
country to destroy the morale of the remaining Taliban
zealots by proving the nonexistence of God.
>
Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade (the
"Black Berets") will be parachuted into the combat
zones to spread doubt, despondency, and existential
anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous
intellectual battles fought during their long
occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action
will be to establish a number of pavement cafes at
strategic points near the front lines. There they will
drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd
nature of life and man's lonely isolation in the
universe. They will be accompanied by a number of
heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further
spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the
philosophers' ears every five minutes and looking
remote and unattainable to everyone else.
>
Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke
yesterday of his confidence in the success of their
mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, an intense and
unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated
wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical
fallacy of the most ridiculous kind. There is no deity
despite the Koran, and I can prove it. Take your
tongue out of my ear, Juliet; I am talking."
>
Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on
man's nauseating freedom of action, with special
reference to the work of Foucault and the films of
Alfred Hitchcock.
>
Humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the
operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects
of passive smoking from the Frenchmen's' endless
Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in
the area.



   

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