John Young on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:06:21 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> my Alan Sondheim is bigger than yours |
Cyrill, Your Sondheim valorization is commendable if you can keep it up. There is a point when getting in bed with Alan leads to being tied to it, like Seinfeld's George Castanza, expecting swell mutual high-minded fucking, then your bedmate suddenly comes out of the bathroom fully street-clothed, rifles your wallet, finds little there, accuses you of being an idiot putz for failing to meet his thieving expectations, for believing he was the man of your dreams, for falling for a slick seduction exploiting your low esteem, for your thinking this is a man who knows my finer qualities, can boost my future when it was bleak. Philosophical sadists, artists of the con art, excel at that stroking of mindful aesthetes preparatory to rendering them obedient, the masterful auto-erotic narcissists contemning their slaves ever dreaming abject praise will stop the addictive torture. Your panhandling for contributions indicates it is too late to escape Alan's pimpage, still, I will pray a genuine fundamentalist ideologue comes to your rescue, frying pan to fire ending the delirious pain of the lost boy. Alan was once my hero, my mentor, my sole voice of mother-fathering solace. Then came the signs of disease, the rejection, the blame, the ridicule, the ostracization, the eviction from acceptable discourse, the being found by others who'd also suffered from Alan's olympian conceit, his ever-searching for victims to toy with. We warn you, pity your state of false belief. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net