Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing AmericaSills, Steven David Justin
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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
Sills, Steven David Justin
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"No, I don't," she said. "Words aren't innately bad." She knew. The big bang
was violent. Movement was violent. She knew too well that any sexual act was a
violent shot at conception wrapped in pleasurable hallucinogenics. Virtually
all music, movies, and other forms of popular culture were the celebration of
sex, a celebration lasting much longer and more indeliably than the act being
celebrated; and so culture was violent. Commerce was definitely strife. It was
a competitive attempt to get the goods in a world of limited resources. A world
with people tripping over each other in their competetive movements flooded
one's senses. Noise was continually interrupting the contemplative assessment
of what one has taken in with the senses or invented in the sacred domain of
the mind. Movement and noise were the real culprits; and yet humans, sociable
creatures of movement, would never indict them. Such beloved villians that
brought them titilation were always allowed to go free. "Again, you seem to
think that violence or love for that matter is in words instead of the love and
hate moving them about. That is ludicrous especially with small children who
experiment with language and haven't learned the appropriateness of words for
various situations. When Nancy Sinatra sang, 'One of these days these boots are
going to walk all over you' the word boot changed--maybe not indeliably but at
least during the year of the popularity of the song. All words are sounds.
Negative and positive connotations to words are constantly changing.
'Conversation' meant sexual intercourse in the seventeenth century and
'intercourse' meant conversation. Haven't you ever been on the bleachers at a
great baseball game and yelled out, "What a fucking great hit."
The vice-principal laughed. "Well, all right, maybe well-meaning men with cans
of beer in their hands might slip on occasion and say such things but again
that is adults. I guess you don't see the problem."
"Listen, Mr. Quest. What is your first name?"
"Michael."
"Do you have a middle name?"
"Yes, but why do you want to know that?"
"I don't know. I do. I like to know who I'm talking with."
"Frasier."
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