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  Word about Words

  There is virtually nothing a would-be censor can do to guarantee the purity of language, because it is not just words that render language impure. Even "dirty" words tend to be morally neutral until placed in a context -- and it is the individual human imagination, more than individual words, that gives a context its moral or immoral twist...The human imagination was designed (by its Designer, if you like) to make rapid-fire, free-form, often-preposterous connections between shapes, words, colors, ideas, desires, sounds. This is its weakness, but also its wondrous strength. The nature of the imagination itself is, at bottom, why organized censorship never works. And it is also why every ferociously determined censorship effort sooner or later escalates into fascistic political agendas, burnings at the stake, dunking-chairs, gulags, pogroms and other literal forms of purge. Obviously, the only fail-safe way to eliminate impurities from human tongues, minds and cultures is to eliminate human life itself.
  --David James Duncan, American novelist, Los Angeles Times, January 23, 1994

  "I ain't never been to Vegas, but i've gambled up my life."

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  JetFlash

  Thanks.  

  Sometimes I need to learn to slow down and relax--I appreciate you accepting my apology.  

  All the best,

  Rod

  "I ain't never been to Vegas, but i've gambled up my life."

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  Jetflash

  When you're wrong you're wrong.  I was wrong.  I completely blew your post out of its satirical context.  For the profanity and text-out-of-context i do apologize.  I know now, too, i was coming off as a jerk.  Can you accept my sincere and humble apology?  

  Thank you for your time,

  Rod

  "I ain't never been to Vegas, but i've gambled up my life."

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  Eating Fish

  Explain to me, if you will or even can, how eating fish is bad?  I understand the devastations of commercial fishing and what it has done to the ocean ecosystems; but fly-fishing for sport--as Duncan adamantly endures--isn't any more harmful then saying driving your car down the highway killing the millions of bugs, birds, river otters, beavers, dogs, cats, or anything else which gets in the way.  If we go by this logic we should lock ourselves up and never do anything ever ever ever again.  In fact, the time we've spent just typing our messages on here we probably killed or harmed the world just by the electricity it takes to provide and maintain power to our computers and buildings.  

  No one is immune to hypocrisy.  Not even duncan or you or myself or the person next door.  

  Whores Truly,
  Rod

  "I ain't never been to Vegas, but i've gambled up my life."

  On David James Duncan posted 2 years, 7 months ago 24 Responses

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  Now that's a load of shit :)

  Let us both not presume to know Duncan's motive based on your internet research.  I've listened to Duncan speak on numerous occasions, i've read ALL of his essays and novels.  I disagree with your statement about Duncan being involved in saving rivers for selfish reasons.  Duncan has quoted Mother Theresa many times, "We can do not great things. Only small things with great love."  I THINK Duncan is at his best when acting on his influences and his heroes ideals and "techniques."  I've met Duncan--i live in Missoula, MT--he's neither selfish nor a fuckin moron.  

  You say: "Did Duncan think we wouldn't find out?"  Duncan has said before he writes to get the message out to involve you and i and all the others to become enraptured and involved so that we can find the problems and hopefully come up with the solutions.  Duncan takes many things into consideration about how rivers are affected.  Do you really think damming rivers doesn't affect its temperatures?  In fact, i would think dams would hinder a river's natural temperature.  Warm Stagnant pools ...no free flowing river?  hmm

  "I ain't never been to Vegas, but i've gambled up my life."

  On David James Duncan posted 2 years, 7 months ago 24 Responses