"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."
"I've got a narrowly focused site collecting first-hand accounts of cancer patients and their loved ones in an open searchable listing. Most people leave their email addresses so its become a nexus for folks to get in touch with each other.
"Hoping you might find a way to mention it (hopefully as an example of what SHOULD be happening on the Net...I have repeatedly contacted Amer Cancer Society, OncolInk, Johns Hopkins, and all the other big cancer sites, and not only will they not link to me, they won't even setup something similar themselves)."
. . . I couldn't have said it better myself, Terry.
"Though the stress of remodeling can strain a relationship, Alexa the Tarotmancer and her husband, writer Tom Robbins, think it should be an adventure. But before you do it, Tom suggests that you 'go on a trip where it's hot and there is no air-conditioning and the rooms are tiny and the beds are hard and perhaps there is some guerilla activity.' After that, remodeling's a breeze. Go to our boards and tell us about how remodeling has affected your relationship."
on 5/16/01 8:00 PM, Cyber Corpse Editors at exquisitecorpse@codrescu.com wrote:
ANNOUNCING REVOLUTION NO. 9
Our incredibly beautiful and severe webmistress, Andrea Garland, has baptized this issue REVOLUTION NO. 9. It's true. In addition to absolutely revolting items such as Willie Smith's SPIDER FUCK story, this issue contains a whole new section called ZOUNDS! You can now hear zounds produced by composers especially for the Corpse, as well as illustrative cuts accompanying music reviews. ZOUNDS!, the brainchild of Mark Spitzer and Plamen Arnoudov, solicits original musical work! If you are a composer, send us a piece! In this mega-issue, which we originally wanted to call THE MEGA-CORPSE, there are also new works by ROBERT CREELEY and ROBERT BLY, part of our ongoing series, GREAT ROBERTS. Neither have we fallen short in BROKEN NEWS, as Martin A. Lee follows closely the creepy resurrection of the ROTTEN CORPSE OF FASCISM. Our indefatigable exotic travelers have outdone themselves breaking the laws of several uptight countries to bring excitement to our readers: you. The noisy, shady and beast-filled forest of fiction and poetry groans with Spring friskiness in this issue. It would be an insult to our many complex, profound, and insurgent writers to call their work a gush of Spring. Nonetheless, this is what this issue contains: SPRING GUSH.
( . . . Now, wouldn't you like email like this? Well, you can--sign up for it here.)
I'm not in this one . . . but I didn't submit to this one, either . . . I do have pieces in the past that were not accepted by the Corpse, and plan to present them here, eventually . . . one is called "B&W Movie."
3 pieces I might submit for #10:
Hey Zeus! - Notes for the Play
GIMME THEM BOOKS!!!
And, I only have the first 2 lines to the next one, which I've been working on now for several months:
"DEAR WORLD: NOT EVERYONE IN AMERICA IS AN ASSHOLE . . . "
. . . via randomWalks. Like trainspotting, but with readers on subways . . . includes decription of reader, what they were reading, plus train and date.
" . . . before cushioned insoles and arch supports
there were feet that sank in rusted chains
backs that cracked beneath the weight of slave names
like Jones, Smith, Johnson, Williams, or even Hilfiger . . . "
" . . . Jones wowed the audience and shed light on sexist laws in France, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, the United States and Uruguay. Jones sympathetically and powerfully portrayed women from these countries testifying before the United Nations about the need to change these laws, which focused on issues such as 'honor killings,' marital rape and female genital mutilation."
would like to direct you to the present-day plight of dog fighting going on all around the world, including even in the U.S. Their website will direct you here.
People over at Fark, Memepool and Metafilter often like to take such scornful jibes at pro-animal groups like PETA.
As if a little compassion ever necessitated such scorn?
Fark also likes to criticize Europe for it's voting the U.S. recently out of it's Human Rights seat, even though Amnesty International repeatedly gives the U.S. low marks on it's yearly international human rights report--Fark links to an article titled as 'Europe whines about America' and categorizes the very idea as 'asinine', calls Joe McCarthy a 'National Hero,' and endlessly recycles a joke he must have found in Milton Berle's Big Book O' Yuks: "France surrenders." Perhaps next Fark will regale us with the ever witty: "I just flew in, boy are my arms tired."
Confidential to Fark: If you're still thinking in terms of country versus country, you might as well be giving your teenage daughter a hoola hoop for her birthday and telling her it's the latest thing.
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