Webster Green
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Mon May-10-04 06:08 PM
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I must post these timely words from Tom Robbins again..... |
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Last thread sank like a stone Friday nite.
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“When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal, but an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal, or even a tree, he suffers the consequences of an unnatural act.”
“Have you ever watched visitors at a managerie or zoo – the fools they make of themselves - the way they leer and snigger and vex and demand entertainment and taunt? A caged beast, like an excess of alcohol, reduces man to his most banal dimensions. And he is only slightly better behaved when observing human inmates of prisons and institutions.”
“A creature, human or otherwise, that has had its freedom compromised, has been degraded. In a subconscious reaction that combines guilt, fear, and contempt, the keepers of the cage – even the observers of the caged – are degraded themselves. The cage is a double degrader. Any bar, whether concrete or intangible, that stands between a living thing and its liberty is a communicable perversity, dangerous to the sanity of everyone concerned.”
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Tom Robbins ‘Another Roadside Attraction’ cpoyright:1971 Bantam Books
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Mon May-10-04 06:22 PM
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1. Tom Robbins is one of my |
LynzM
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Mon May-10-04 06:26 PM
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I really like his writing...
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Mon May-10-04 07:11 PM
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3. You have to love a book that starts out with: |
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"The magicians underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami"
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Mon May-10-04 07:14 PM
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4. I saw Friday's thread, but |
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didn't comment on how perfectly appropriate your excerpt is.
Thanks for resurrecting it.
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Mon May-10-04 07:15 PM
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5. Another Roadside Attraction is one my alltime.... |
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favorite books. I read it in the 701's when I was 18 and it had a huge impact on me. I love Tom Robbins!
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Mon May-10-04 08:23 PM
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I've always liked the following.
Jesus: Hey, Dad? God: Yes, Son? Jesus: Western civilization followed me home. Can I keep it? God: Certainly not! And put it down this minute--you don't know where it's been!
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Mon May-10-04 08:47 PM
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And him as a writer as well
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Webster Green
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Mon May-10-04 10:17 PM
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8. I think I need to do a Photoshop project using these words... |
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And some appropriate images of recent events.
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