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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: chemicalis <chemicalis-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: he mood jocose the brood bellicose. -- Deux Fois ! What!! Said Henry lighting up yet another cigar and then went back to typing Tropic of Cancer


            


> laughing through the merddesespoir.  Thanks Eldorra
for> a brilliant merdeleuzian
> (et al) merdediatribe!

> 
> 
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> From: eldorra mitchell
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> fafa ; hownowbrowncow
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> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:17 AM
> Subject: he mood jocose the brood bellicose. -- Deux
> Fois ! What!! Said
> Henry lighting up yet another cigar and then went
> back to typing Tropic of
> Cancer
> 
> 
> Dear Mal-odour(or just plain stinky stink!). Of
> course I know you are
> alluding to Mister Isadore (och there goes my
> orthography and my runs ons
> are about to turn into the runs the logorehhea of my
> diarehea) Ducasse
> author of the highblown rhetorical texts known as
> the Chants of... etc.. a
> terrible wee book in my humble and humbling
> perspective. So, as for the rest
> of your tit for tat rumblebumble attacks on me
> well!: here for one you
> misread as usual: I say that slaves are at least in
> part, if not all,
> responsible for their status. Second, does that
> sound much different from
> what Fanon has said in his legendary books? The
> oppressed must speak up. If
> they do not speak up , is it the fault of the
> Masters?? In other words dear
> laddy-lad if Mrs. M. Thatcher was Primer Minister
> again tomorrow whose fault
> would that be? We destroy ourselves and bring our
> own oppression about
> because we are in division my dear malodorous stinky
> friend: our interests
> and desires collide and conflict each everyday of
> our dilly dally dull
> lives. Left hand dont do what right hand commands.
> You dig?? You see in the
> west that is called being a fool; in the east, the
> nonmonotheistic east we
> dont have such pressing dualisms to heed by. So no,
> dear one I dont think
> every single arab Mickey and Minnie is responsible
> for the brutal and
> violent regimes in the arab world; I dont think the
> little gal and guy
> living near the Tigris Euphrates is responsible for
> Saddam Hussein being in
> power at all.  In fact ninnypoo I never said that. I
> said that arab
> dictators got there by virtue of several things: One
> their own ruthless
> drive to power; 2: I also happen to believe the
> history of Islam is a
> violent and conquering one and that Islam is no more
> morally upright than
> any other victorius (oops watch that spelling Elm!!)
> world thrusting power;
> I also (3) that Islam wiped out the great
> polytheistic feminine religions of
> yore a la Sheba and others -- well detailed in the
> Sat! anic Verses on a
> fictional level for instance -- and that this drive
> to phallocratic
> assertion is a male thing; this thesis is not unusal
> and many feminists
> thinkers might agree; I think that the peoples of
> the Middle East were a
> long time ago less in the mind for adoring One God
> until Judaism
> Christianity and Islam came along. I think these
> three world-religions are
> stinky pooh. I suspect that ( I am way off here and
> into points 3,4,5,
> etc...) perhaps if they had not been the dominant
> forces of western history
> combined with the greek and roman minds of the
> Mediterranean basin we might
> find ourselves a tad more peaceful and supple: But
> then the west would
> holler: What about Bach? and Mister Shakespeare? And
> I would retort, what
> about them? and what about that miserable maniac
> Count Lautreamont? and his
> horribel prose sandwhichs? these diatribes by an
> isolated french maniac
> written in 19 th c. France? O Kali Mama Protect me
> from the Fiends of
> Western googaga. Give me a god I carry to the door
> when I leave and a
> goddess I can sleep with when snoozing! A portable
> libido to invest my weary
> time with. Of course mister Freud is all divine
> divested. I would say I
> Prefer to be called Eldorra of Finnegans Wake. That
> to me is a nonwestern
> work. Now about our friends the Palestinians. well I
> just happen to think
> they are brave and way ahead of their brothers and
> sisters in the Arabic
> world. I suspect that their recent adherence to a
> religious edge is a result
> of not having the opportunity to be secular in a
> manner that permits them
> choices: I dont imagine they have much time to even
> consider these matters
> esp. the 12 year old kids who fight with rocks and
> pebbles and so on.
> However I think their corrupt leader is the man to
> blame: but then someone
> might say No, he hath no choice. I say he does. Take
> off your hat Mister
> Arafat. For instance last week when he was let out
> of his 'headquarters' and
> the Kids were all there cheering saying we Will all
> die and be Martyrs I
> think it was HIS RESPONSIBILITY to say to the Kids !
> No Kids this cannot be:
> You must live in Joy and find the true path to
> liberty: HaD he done that he
> would have been a Moral Leader as a sleazy politican
> leaping from one crisis
> to another;  I mention Mandela and Martin Luther
> King as instances of moral
> victory and political power combined: Arafat had
> many times the choice to
> make a bold step into the direction of peace: I am
> thinking of the early
> Intifata: I used to think: Hey why dont he just give
> up and go to the them
> Israelies and say: Here Am  I: I surrender: take me
> I am thy prisoner: But
> no, the Bimbo went for the big rhetoric of the arab
> lingo and he went and
> supported Saddam Hussein and his mother of all
> battles babble and high flown
> and most dangerous to the Iraqui people war; Who
> paid for that war? The Iraq
> people did: and one could say now that the
> Palestinian people are also
> paying for Mister FatCatArafat'S dummy mistakes:
> This guy Arafat he banned
> Mister Edward Said'S books. Has Mister Arafat ever
> read Mister Said? Has
> Mister Arafat ever read Israel Shamir or Noam
> Chomsky? I doubt, I doubt he
> has done so more than Mister Bloody Sharon shame be
> on his name for ever. So
> if these bums are not accountable for their  peoples
> then the people must be
> accountable and must say Nay: It is not the leader
> who is responsible for
> the failure of the people to take their liberty and
> rise up and revolt.
> There is a German analyst named W. Reich: he hath a
> book called: The Mass
> Psychology of Fascism (or some such title) and in
> that book he says: It is
> not that people steal or break laws that is
> surprising , it is that they do
> not steal bread and break laws that is surprising.
> He also says in another
> passage of this book: "AFTER CENTURIES OF
> EXPLOITATION, WHY DO PEOPLE STILL
> TOLERATE BEING HUMILATED AND ENSLAVED, TO SUCH A
> POINT, INDEED,
> THAT THEY ACTUALLY WANT HUMILATION AND SLAVERY NOT
> ONLY FOR OTHERS BUT FOR
> THEMSELVES?. REICH IS AT HIS PROFOUNDEST WHEN as a
> thinker when he refuses
> to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the
> masses as an explanation
> of fascism, and Demands
> AN EXPLANATION THAT WILL TAKE THEIR DESIRES INTO
> ACCOUNT, an explanation
> formulated in terms of desire:
> NO, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain
> Point, under a Certain
> Set of conditions
> , they wanted fascism, and it is This Perversion of
> the desire of the masses
> that needs to be accounted for." So this is the
> painful truth that all
> peoples need to examine: how does one account for
> the fascistic desires of
> the mass the herd the crowd?? I speculate that this
> desire is partially the
> result of the conquest of the World (almost thank
> goody Krishna) by western
> powers and ideas and technocracies etc. So now: we
> must find another way of
> thinking of these problematos. In Indian thought
> there is a way to account
> for this as there is Eastern thought: the left side
> of the self and the
> right side are at war; we are puppets of desire;
> Desire is the war; we are
> the selves incarnated to act this out:a kalpa is one
> million years; a war is
> a mere wink in the eyes of the goddess of war and so
> Maya is what makes us
> believe it: we believe in territory and land and war
> and peace and all of
> these dastardly dualities destroy us with
> earthshattering forces of violence
> and shoch and F16s and helicopters and bullets and
> mothers dying giving
> birth at checkpoints and in the minds of those who
> died at the disco in Tel
> Aviv there is nothing but hatred and blood dusty
> limbs scatterd and hatred
> and memories of the holocaust and the images of
> Rwanda and Bosnia and
> Cambodia are exploding across their minds and the
> soldier guard is a madman
> too a player in a bit part movie called the western
> world and its atrocities
> which fire on and on and fire and burn and
> slaughter: there is no end to
> that hatred caused and built by desire which has no
> map and no shelter; do
> you think there is an answer with the stinky Chants
> of Maldoror? or the
> western bible and its myths of progenesis and
> violence and exile?? Where
> cometh Gilgamesh and the ancient gods and goddesses
> of the Middle East and
> their combined loves with the Bindu of the Far East
> and The Tao of flow of
> China? Wherefore the flattened horizontal
> oligarchies of the Chinese caste
> and Indian caste systems?? I know not the replies:
> but something slips into
> my little mind and Sai! th: In the east is a
> rhetoric that knows better
> because we are teeming in the Billions and In Africa
> there is also something
> called Non Western which hath a reply not vengeful
> and rational cold dead
> extermination camps of Russia Germany and WW2 and
> your wester world which by
> 1967 had already massacred 100,000,000 million
> peoples in their wars: And
> even Mao had come by his great march with war
> weapons of the west. Hmmm  big
> questions and delires to ponder dream on and dread
> the concept of its
> outcome: who invented the atomic bomb? The west. So
> there is mad desire that
> wishes to despot and destroy itself and who sells
> them the oil; saudi arabia
> and who takes the cash and spends it on destroying
> their own people; rich
> arabs who are muslim; therefore the people of those
> countries are the ones
> who must kick off the dull torpor of their already
> dead tyrants.If not they,
> who else then?? To quote a rabbi: If I am not for
> myself, who will be for
> me? I am a Jew who lives in India in the body of the
> man and woman child I
> was born. There is no river beside me that has the
> truth of the west. Send
> me a Sufi: Here is a tale: One night the Famous Sufi
> master came home to
> find a burglar had entered his chambers and was(had)
>  filling(ed) a sack
> with all his most valuable possessions; the Master
> was not heard by the
> thief in the night; he crept behind him slippered
> feet light over the floor
> and began to help the crook load the bag: at first
> the crooked man did not
> note this; a few moments afterwards he realized the
> Sufi was there and he
> turned in fear and saith to him: What are you doing?
> Don't you realize I am
> robbing you? And the Ruddin said, Robbing me, I
> thought we were moving.
> Eldorra the 12 year old boy crying Baba Baba my life
> is at end: I go to
> Allah now to sweet mysteries of the halls of love
> and the scent of prayer
> and happiness. In heaven we are at peace. I am okay
> in Allah's breast when
> Allah marries Vishnu She the old goddess returns to
> Kiss Allah in her arms
> and the widow of Muhammed has made pleasure his goal
> and not war; she also
> marries many and not one; Eldorra of Mitchell in the
> sands of Arabia and the
> cult of the Goddess across the sea to India and the
> spice trading paths; the
> old mountains of Afghanistan destroyed by the
> western imperial bombers; men
> who fly with no pain to ravage and waste the
> terrains of evil and good
> below; Eldorra who cries on videos replayed a
> billion times; but the
> children of Cambodia were also the ones of Eldorra:
> what does Kurtz say:
> they cut off the arms of the ones we had given the
> vaccine to; that was
> horror; the horror, the Ouroborous of desire and its
> monstrous shield
> infectios contagion of penetration and the thousand
> arms of mutilation. Kali
> the thinker thunder goddess who spits out Pallas
> Athena her subsister not
> barely able to carry out her duties to some trade
> god around the
> Mediterranean basis; and the Philistines invading
> Gaze (the bride of the
> Arabs) and the land of Canaan is cursed with refuse
> and blood with olives
> born of blood tiding the circus lands of fertile
> crescents and Dogon the
> fish god who eats the children of rice; and the
> Millions of Chinamen
> copulating bumbs bounding higher than all the
> william blakes of london and
> its mad visionaries of flight and stoic pretenders
> to the throne of god; god
> the character in a grammar movie in the west; its
> Phoenician phonetic
> boredome having reached its end now over the book
> finished with its dead
> grammars of livning and dead; Jesus our Krishna of
> the west without a cock a
> doodle doo where are you in the Easter bloody
> nightmare of this April is the
> cruelest month bloody rose of Sharon and the camps
> reopening and the babies
> beaten and the disks destroyed and the Bank of
> Pales! tine plundered and the
> Nigerians in prison beaten tortured and humilated.:
> And my Papa Genet in
> Algeria Morroco and Palestine: yes Palestine is part
> of India did not you
> know? Did not you know that Palestine is the
> daughter of India?
>   Finally one final funamble finale wordy word: if
> you wish to write me off
> list and I think it apt to reply in public please
> understand I am a public
> episteme and not a private type.
> Yours Elm.
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