tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16017668.post8309541146684439702..comments2023-09-06T04:13:26.083-07:00Comments on untethered: Forget MLK; It's ODB DayDennis Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16017668.post-75439402342309989692007-11-15T14:38:00.000-08:002007-11-15T14:38:00.000-08:00Alas, if I hadn't the unfortunate experience of la...Alas, if I hadn't the unfortunate experience of laboring up to the halfway point of "The Naked and the Dead" before coming to my senses those many years ago, I might have the courage to seek out "The White Negro" for fodder. No thanks. It would be downright ghoulish to satirize the recently deceased.Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16017668.post-60765043196376889792007-11-15T14:16:00.000-08:002007-11-15T14:16:00.000-08:00Dennis,You seem to be channeling (and improving up...Dennis,<BR/><BR/>You seem to be channeling (and improving upon) the voice of another recently deceased cultural tempest(or blowhard). <BR/><BR/>I refer of course to Norman Mailer, and eagerly await your next joint venture, in which the two of you will, I hope, expand upon the theme of the "'wild nigger' who both appalls and fascinates the more effectively socialized white masses."<BR/><BR/>By the way, let me congratulate you/him on recognizing (if even from the grave) that "primitive narcissism" remains, despite its appeal in an atmosphere of increasing pointlessness and sterility, yet another cultural dead end. <BR/><BR/>I believe it was Hunter Thompson who liked to quote Samuel Johnson, who liked to say that, "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." An obervation which has some bearing on this point.<BR/><BR/>Should you decide to expand upon and commit this post to print, may I suggest some titles:<BR/><BR/>The Nasty and the Dead<BR/><BR/>Hoe's Ghost<BR/><BR/>The White Ol' Bastard<BR/><BR/>The Prisoner of Sex (Oh, sorry, that one's already taken.)<BR/><BR/>All kidding aside, this was an interesting piece of work.Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.com