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Retractions are welcome. For example the Bechdel Test. The first modern meme was written into a cartoon in 1985. I would like to see it performatively. Full stop. But Ms Bechdel said enough already. But I say there we see the power of words, unless like Tom Wolfe you want to say at 80 that He castigated his enemies and subtly satired his friends....in his book The Powers of Speech? Fuck it, once published a hardcopy book belongs to its owners. And logically and like you are gentle with this author here, retractions are always welcome...for instance your ten thousand hours ...guaranties nothing about the ideas that take place in your soul when you realize you have not also written the Ubu plays. Am I write? I mean Vollman is both logghorea and good enough to read. A close to the breast question of who you believe about the form fitting the content. I listen to Forster saying that, who at the same time occupies the Don place of whatsisname Lewis Carroll. Or Camille Paglia who I will spend 14 more hours of my life with because she is serious abt her pronouncements. We still live in the Romantic moment? Mmmaybe...but then why I am not slumming in Romania? To which my answer goes: in the land of the crazed, the monomaniac is king. Ideas like ableism are idols made of words, Sam Kahn raspberries bullshit in the theatre, I appreciate that ..we are doing our versiin of the Cultural Revolution and it is a bettors odds we will well understand each other after, insert raspberry , isn't that part nearly done?

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Thank you Nathan! I do enjoy raspberry bullshitting in the theater - as well as slumming in Romania lol!

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I heard Romania is beautiful in the way that our American unschooled tastes find beautiful. Wild and dangerous. Zbigniew Herbert in a poem In the Event of Catastrophe suggests as much, he says leave quickly your chambers without too much gear. If that isn't a recommendation to head for the tree line, IDK, but it seems to say to try your hand at camping...

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