Posted by Astrogurl at dialup-185.141.220.203.acc01-elbo-cof.comindico.com.au on September 22, 2003 at 20:43:36:
In Reply to: I write essays endlessly. posted by Smalls on September 22, 2003 at 01:57:37:
WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
;~D
The question's done it's job, you've just theorized about the failure of Post Modernist Theory AND you are now to go and read Marcel Proust, just to settle down into another era of Modernist Realism sweet.
Very nice.
You've given me hope in the virtual world of sometime imbecile behaviour...
Thank you, thank you.
Will let my hair down now.
Big Kiss,
A.
: Essays on the end of the world, young love, defunct baseball teams, crying in the ashes of abandoned malls... truck stops and Superman, on our failure as a people to turn the priests and the merchants and the soldiers against each other for the sake of freedom. Insipid song parodies, one-handed poetry, one-row poetry, gibberish word jumbles, hate-filled rants against garbagemen and kings, pretty girls stuck flipping burgers, atom bomb halos and colors I haven't seen since I was young and didn't wear glasses.
: But they're mostly shitty and they only go in my diary.
: Everyonce in a while, I'm proud of myself.
: Post-modernism is the bitter failure of would-be-geniuses, the battle of who can care less, endless reference and epileptic winking, unable to play God and bring a frog out of the ether... they take a real frog and kill it to see what makes it go. Make a meal of its workings. Tell us that there are only those parts, there's no frogs at all and... oh, here's a polkadot frog, isn't that cool? Don't you get it: frogs aren't polka dot.
: Yes, yes, we get it. There's a language here, there's a symbol-set, there's a structure... quit fucking pointing it out like some jackass second-grader pointing at the apple he left teacher and do something with it. Make the fucking frog hop and get the goddamn toys over the mountain. These parlor tricks impress only children and idiots, we know all the tricks... we just personally don't trot them out because we're sick of them.
: It's all a show, they're actually actors, it's actually just strings being plucked, it's actually just letters put together in different orders, we get it, we get it, we get it.
: DO something.
: Save the world, get the girl, punch the bad guy or just learn something.
: But enough of theorizing the obvious.
: Mike