From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Keywords: Moskva, Petushki
Date: 10 Nov 92 07:52:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov10.025231.17292
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <1992Nov9.213958.17281@husc3.harvard.edu> 
verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:

>In article <1992Nov9.205208.17277@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

>>verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:

MV:
>>>"Fylologi" ys ze sinonim to "ympotens"
>
>>>"In the name of a freedom of a personal choice we revoke
>>>the spelling!" - A. Krychenykh.
>
>[ GG Allin masterpiece mercifully deleted ]

MV:
>>>That's *real* philology you, Misha, have no guts at.

MZ:
>>Duh.  Not guts, interest.  Let us try to keep this conversation on an
>>impersonal level, especially since your terminal pallor and delicate
>>constitution really do not go too well with all this macho talk.

MV:
>	hehe I was a sportsmen back in Russia (lifted 240 pounds on my back)
>	I guess you never were one :)

Aha, that must have been your wife.  Would you care to meet me at the
MAC tomorrow to bench press for term bills?  If you are lacking
self-confidence, I will settle for a bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII.

MZ:
>>Young man, you are no Osip Mandelshtam.  Let me put it bluntly:
>>between the topics of the merits of philology, the personalities of
>>the three Michaels, your relentless search for the meaning of life in
>>rap lyrics, and the immortal prose poem _Moskva -- Petushki_, there is
>>only one that I find worthy of discussion.  There are no points for
>>guessing which one it is.

MV:
>	But: that's not me who uses personal talk instead of serious discussion.
>	Who started all those "you are the mathematician, don't talk about
>	philology" mumble but you? 

Dear Misha, you have my express permission to talk about philology
whenever you like; just avoid throwing bombastic pronouncements in my
face, because you will only get them back with interest.  By the way,
if you look `logos' up in a Greek dictionary, you will readily see
that mathematics is an integral part of philology.

MV:
>	One more sidenote: GG Allin belongs to the subject of philology
>	no less than some Swiss professional. But the professional
>	is usually devoid of thing GG has in abundance: emotions.

A trivial homework assignment for you, my emotional friend: read Poe's
"The Philosophy of Composition", and tell me whether the author is
displaying or hiding his emotions, both in the article and in the poem
discussed therein.

MV:
>	That's why I wanted to repost his eternally genuine
>	lyrics :) And in his rage *he* is more relevant to
>	the author of "Valpurgius' Night" (wrong spelling, I 
>	know) than most of this discussion. BTW, do you really
>	think GG is a rap musician? That's ignorance, you
>	know: he is not a musician at all :) but the 
>	American prisoner of conscience (one of many :)

Like I said, I am not interested.

MV:
>	Sapienty sat. 

How impolite of you to presume.

>	Misha.

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
" -- I shall speak bluntly, because life is short."