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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: two short essays by Jennifer
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:10:59 -0400 (EDT)
Violence Why do I write these things? Alan won't have anything to do with me and I want him so much to have to do with me! So I told him I'd write about violence which I guess means fighting and hurting people. Well, violence certainly never did me any good, and I asked Nikuko and she said just the same thing. But then I got to thinking (yes, I can think!) and sometimes it just seems the only way to get things done. If you push a bulldozer over a cliff, it can't hurt any deer any more, can it? I know there are other bulldozers but-the-exigencies-of-capital-create-a-situa- tion-of-limited-surplus-accumulation but someday there won't be any more. And if I look at our great country of ours the United States of America, I see a killer in the White House of our Presidency and it's a good thing I don't believe in capital punishment because he has killed far more than any serial killer on television and he's allowed to walk the streets. Well he didn't kill them directly, it was what television calls a "mob hit" by other people he pays to kill of his enemies along with his friends and cohoarts Mr. Rove and Shaney and Mr. Rice. If they were really alive they would be hunted down and-killed-by-the-police-like-the-dogs-they-are and thrown into jail where they could be attacked by other people there who lost loved ones in a world full of torture and lies. I know that violence is bad and wrong but if someone is doing hurtful things to people you love shouldn't you stop it shouldn't you? Does that make me worse than Satan? Old Age Alan keeps telling me he is invisible but I can see him. He says it's the cultural-grid-spitting-out-people-over-a-certain-age way things are, that after a time you can't get any work and who would want to work anyway. I think it would be terrible if Alan starves to death but he is unbelievably inkredibly old and he won't have do suffer long because even if the starving thing doesn't work he will die soon anyway, we spend lots of time talking about this, he doesn't seem to have anything else to do except fondle me.