encoded files--PLEASE READ

[Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The spoon collective tends to discourage the posting of encoded files to=20
its l*sts.

This is because most people don't have the knowhow or the technology to=20
view them, and they take up space and appear as meaningless junk. =20
(Believe it or not, we tend to be against the posting of meaningless junk=
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to our l*sts.)

Anyhow, and sorry to be a party-pooper etc., the pictures of Marcelina=20
and Luis are in fact of Jerry Lewis--respectively in drag at a bar and in=
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a boxing ring.  You can view them at=20
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/marxism_html/pix.html.

I enclose an ascii version of the picture of Jay.



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                           DOWN WITH THE NEW FLAG!

                           SMASH PUTRID AVAKIANISM!

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8J=A0--

I have often thought, however, that we should have some kind of special=20
space for the fiction that is often posted to the l*st--Louis' adventures=
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as cattle hand, Adolfo's poems, Hans' parables (and of course, if we made
our definition of fiction a little more relaxed, we would have a rich=20
vein to mine).

Perhaps also for those interested we could arrange for the exchange of=20
pictures and other encoded files.

Or even a lonely hearts column?  Announcements of births, marriages and=20
deaths?  Ride board?

Why should the marxism l*st not expand to be an all-round service for the=
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inter-networked left?

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons


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