Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:56:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: M-TH: PANIC LEFT: A PANIC SCREEN (scream?)


Dear Panic People,

Some people find your prose impenetrable. Some people stop reading after
the first line. Some people read and analyze. You have said that "all"
your texts are being read and responded to. Are "all" of us reading them
and responding to your texts? Since I read that sentence, and am now
responding to that sentence, does this mean that "all" of us on the list
are responding? Am I responding to "all" your texts by responding to some
of them (more accurately, a wee portion of one of them)? Are you seeking
to alienate "all" of us with these sorts of *totalizing* (how about that
for inaccessible jargon) claims?

Panic (insert here) is an cute tool created and used by the Canadian
hypermodernists (a step above the postmodernists, at least), among others. 
Is this the sort of perspective that is being foisted upon us here? Panic
this or that? Panic urine (the new gold standard). Panic USA. Are we all
becoming part of the (hyper/post)modern screen? or are panic texts all the
panic scream? Post Flakes, the box with the (inter/intra/supra)subjective
curvature that reenters our vacuum cleaner buttholes so that we can spit
the pixels of postmodern dust between our Dan Rather teeth.

You are the spotlite
And I am the warrior
Poo-poop-e-doo

Andy Austin




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