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April 5, 1979

ThursdayVaaDaa-'

rsdayVooDooA9rll 5 1979

uclearen like Professor orrnan

Rasmussen.Professor Rasmussen: a

man who can only be describedas a senile incom etent, Hiswobbling bald head sportingtwo ghastly moles with longblack hairs that always stickout. His eyes are basicallyjust another pair of thesemoles. He spends hours uponhours in his office in Building12 having graduate studentsconstantly rearrange hisstuffed-bird collection intovarious poses.

Like other senile peopleProfessor Rasmussen has lostcontrol of his s hincter andflatuates constantly. Almostoften enough to punctuate hissentences.

For his own safety I hopehe never gets near the police-man who struck me on thecommon. It would be disas-trous, And yet this is theman ultimately responsiblefor the construction ofmany of the nuclear plantsin this country. This is theman who Said, "Nuclear ener-gy is how the sun works -why can't we have some ofour own?" I almost heardthis man B, eak recently.

Almost.ot even the best micro-

phones can ick up words un-less a mouth gives them life.The few sentences I heard himutter distinctly gives even abetter clue to the depth of hisindoctrination. The mindpolice do not tolerate loosesentence structures. Theycontrol. They deaden thesenses. They stop you. Theyare stolid. They obfuscate,They reveal, to a significantportion of the audience aboutwhat they want to, which iswhatever is considered by the

speaker to be statisticallyimportant enough to consider,taking into account all relevantfactors but without any quanti-tative analysis of the problemswhich are exactly what you aresupposed to think you heard himsay. .

The winds of April haveblown the debris of Harrisburgas far as Maine. But theycarry more. There s a newscent in the breeze. The olicesmell fear, I smell revolution(see box on this pages, Nuclearenergy will never be paid for bythose it kills. An unpopularlaw will not be tolerated. Ismell the odors of civil diso-bedience beginning to rise fromthe cooling towers of Harris-burg and the empty bottles ofalcohol left behind after April16.

Fenway Park booed whenKing threw out the first ball.Brandeis was closed by astudent/faculty strike overdivestment. Boston Universityfaculty walked off after thecontract they and the adminiS-tration had agreed to was re-jected by the board of trustees.

The time has come againwhen we must protect ourrights. We will drink as muchand as often in public as possi-ble. We will piss under Nor-man Rasmussen's door. Per-haps some student who worksin the faculty club can put ra-dioactive wastes in his lunch.Remember - you can't see orsmell it. Nor do we need totravel to Harrisburg to find areactor - there's one right oncampus. It's in back of theNecco company. We will havea strike. We do not exist. Welive! And we do not want tolive - we do not want ourchildren to live - in the radio- ~active desert.

Wednesday morning Istood in front of the PrudentialCenter with about 1 000 othercollege students chanting anti-nuclear slogans:

Hell No! e Won't Glow!Send King to Harrisburg.By 12:15 over 2,000 more

students had joined us, BU.Brandeis. Tufts. Wellesley.MIT.

"E cuse me,' said arather handsome young manwith a blazer. "Is Harvard'sname on that list? If it's notplease put it down. '

By 12:30 over 5 000 peo-ple had gathered and the ro-cession started down BoylstonStreet led by a Boston Policemotorcycle escort. Everythingwas fine. Elaine and I handedout leaflets to people on thesidewalks. By the time we gotto Arlington Street people werestill joining the march at thePrudential Center. It was aquarter to one and the bells'started ringing. Pigeons,hundreds of pigeons, flew intothe sky. People cheered"America, We Love You, 'and,, 0 ukes." We then stood

for a moment of silence to re-member Martin Luther King,who had been shot in emphiseleven years before.

I tried to hand one of myleaflets to a cop.

Instantly he brought hisinch-and-a-half thick mahogonybilly-club from behind his backand whipped it across my handsknocking the leaflets-all overthe ground.

My hands felt broken -like they d been caught in a cardoor. I bent over holding themtogether. I could still not be-lieve what had happened. AnAmerican policeman had justphysically attacked me w ithmt

any pro vocation. But as Ilooked into his grimy half-shaven face and mouthful ofbrown teeth I realized this wasno different from Americanco orate executives and evenprofessional engineers slappingthe hands of anybody who daresto suggest there might be othersources of energy besides nu-clear reactors by denying themgrants, refusing to recognizetheir knowledge or silencingthem in the IJU} Ia,

"You know samet hingkid?' The Co said, 'Yousmell. I think your face lookslike my dog sass. You knowif it weren t for you goddamnJews we'd have all the oil we'dneed and wouldn't even have tofuck with nuclear ower.

That's it ••• Jews smell.Arabs smell. The stench of ablack man within 10 feet of theofficer would have been enoughto make him puke. Americanmorality is dictated by the nose,Americans don't smell. Whenthey shit it comes wrapped ingold foil and sprayed with per-fume. The state Departmentwould rather ship deoderantoverseas than food or healthservices. Especially if it'sradioactive. American-genesaren't destroyed by radioacti-vity. Radioactivity only de-stroys foreign genes.

, ow pick up those god-damn leaflets before I arrestyou for littering. "

My left hand was badlybruised and Iwas only able toclose three of my fingers. JetI picked up all the leaflets -they could still be used, and Idon't believe in wasting mytime getting busted when Idon t have to.

Was all this necessary?Men here at MIT think so.

Oulca IolutionHappy Ending Ruins

China Syndromeselves and God help those whoget caught." So long as no onewho can do something abort itis aware of the extremely largeamount of fraud and downrighttheivery they're in it's perfect-ly all right. But the minutethat person gets caught, every-one does their best to nail himto the wall. Why?

To set an example to theyoung upcoming administrativepeople not to get caught. Neversay not to do it simply don'tget caught.

Is this the way we want ourworld to be run? By a bunchof dirty unde rhanded corruptindividuals who set themselvesup as the sup osed intelligen-cia?

If you hav e any doubts, letme tell you the correct answerin one word:

NO!We won't stand by and let

this collection of demagoguesruin our rights and freedom.

Two hundred years ago,our forefathers concluded thatthey WOuldnot stand for the op-pression from a similar groupof antagonists.

That time my friends, hascome again. In order to stopthem a Revolution must takeplace. And know that togetherwe can conquer their way oflife and furthermore show themthat our way is the better!

That is what is needed at thisschool. Professors who res-pect those students who do notconform to their way of think-ing. The administration shouldstop trying to smother theflames of genius that pour forthfrom the students who live lifethe way they see fit and not theway society sees it.

What these fools see areonly the things that are guaran-teed in life': namely, death andtaxes. The geniuses on theother hand see Ute pleasures inlife, such as lying in the sun-shine, sailing on the river,smoking what they wish drop-ping what they wish and doingeverything to the max.

Another thing administra-tive personnel concentrate onin profit. If they're losingmoney because of you you rethe one who gets the axe. How-ever, if they're losing moneybecause of themselves they'llgive themselves even moremoney. Great, huh? It shouldmake more and less sense aswe go on.

They are the types whoworry about how much profitthe com. any will lose becausethe reactor failed.. at oncedoes it cross their minds thatthousands of lives, includingtheir own are at stake ..

Probably the best way tostate their lifestyle is "Godhelps those who help them-

reviewed by A. RoezelleI came out of the theater

after seeing The China Syn-drome saying, "Boy, that wasa good movie." Its excellentquality and ente rtainment valuemade it a very enjoyable cine-ma experience. In fact, Ican't remember the last timethat I thought that the total ofa film was so good. LatelyI've seen gilms where IwasImpressed by one or morecomponents of the film - theacting, the story, the cinema-tography, etc. - but didn't feelgreat about the film as a whole.

Each independent elementof the movie was very profes-sional and well done. It waseasy to watch because of_~he

smooth sound and" hotog raphy,The sets were appropriate andrealistic. They lent authenti-city to the story rather than.distracting from it by giving ashow of phony technology thatone so often sees in the mo-vies. Scenes in the nuclearpower plant and the TV news-room were shot in actual powerplants and a newsroom withthe expert advice of the em-ployees there. The controlroom of the power plant is aconvincing construction - utili·tartan with gauges and indica-tors that actually correspondcorrectly to the action in thestory 0

The acting was uniformly(continued on next page)

Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, andMichael Douglas (top to bottom) appearconcerned as The China Syndrome isthreatened in Harri burg, Penn.(Photo: Overthrow, YNS)

lI-------=~~~~=============~=1ThursdayVoaDaoChina

SyndromeThursday VooDoois published constantly by The Indoor Plant Club a recognized activity of the Association of studentActivities (A.S.A.) of the Undergraduate Association (U.A.) of the Dean for student Affairs Office (D.S.A. ) of the

assachusetts Institute of Technology (M. LT.). Our offices are in Room 301, on the third floor (Charles River side)of the Walker emorial Building, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Mass. 02139. Thursday VooDoois the Journal ofCulture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The stoxies. characters and incidents mentioned in this newspaper are entirely satirical. No actual persons, livingor dead, are intended or should be inferred. -.

This material is copyright April, 1979 by.The Indoor Plant Club.Circulation: 8000 copies, distributed at M. I. T., Wellesley, and stores throughout Cambridgeport.This issue is dated April 4 1979, and is Volume 67, Number 16. VooDoofounded in 1919.

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(continued from previous page)excellent. Every characterseemed real. Jack Lemmonwas outstanding as the powerplant's control room manager.His middle-aged, trying-not-to-make-waves, dull littleman with an awakening con-science is totally convincing.He also makes the character stransition to bravery and moralconviction completely plausi-ble. Jane Fonda looks great.With her hair dyed red sheplays a soft news TV reporterwho is trying to get real newsassignments and be taken seri-ously. Again, with the helpof research (Fonda spent timewith real newswomen on thejob) the character is totallyconvincing. I could go on abouteach character but they wereall good. Both the writing andthe acting produced remarkablyreal people. 0 one was astereotypical good guy or badguy. They were real people inwhat appeared to a very realworld. The film was well re-searched. Characters, setsand sttuattons strove to berealistic rather than fantastic.

The story is simple. JaneFonda and Ichael Douglas, asher cameraman are at a nu-clear power plant filming afeature on nuclear power. Justas they're being shown the con-trol room an accident happensin the plant and it is apparentby the distress of the controlroom personnel that a majornuclear disaster may occur.

In this tense, suspensefulscene the film doesn't play onthe sus ense to give a cheapthrtll, It shows the situationfrom the realistic viewpoint,with the characters beingregular people who, faced witha crisis, get an adrenalm rush,blow up, and bite their finger-nails. The crisis passes butthe plant must be closed for reopairs and ins ectton, Fondaand Douglas then struggle to geget their story told. The Iantowners are powerful enough tokeep the possibility of danger asecret, though. Jack Lemmon,who was in charge of the con-trol during the crisis, decidesthat he must make peopleaware of uncorrected problemsin the plant that present athreat to their lives despitethe danger of losing his joband to his personal safety.Together now Fonda andLemmon-battle the powercompany to make the publicaware.

This movie is a success.Douglas, the producer, andFonda set out to make an eye-opening and entertaining film.It was certainly entertainingand it did a good job of openingeyes. Even without the fortui-tous co.incidence of the problemin Pennsylvania, tbis moviewould probably have made anim ortant dent in the publicconsciousness. By not beinghysterical and overzealous itmakes tts point. Although itis propaganda one doesn't feelthat one is being subjected tosuch. The movie presentsreal people living in our worldtrying to deal with technologyand big business. You knowhow frustrating that can be.Well this film shows thoseordinary peo; le trying to maketheir lives better and succeed-ing as best they can - not one-dimensionally or completely,but by winning a little; the waythings can really happen. Soit gives hope and sets an exam-ple for the rest of us. .. .. __ .... .. ...

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--·F~i~na~n~c~e'B~o~ar~d~~-~I=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=-I~Terminates The'TechYesterday, the Finance

Board (FinBoard) of the Under-graduate Association (UA)ofthe Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT)voted to stopthe publication of The Tech, a.student newspaper. The finalissue will be published on Fri-day, April 5, 1979.

FinBoard voted unanimous-.!y to cancel the $50,000 loanwhich is due from The Tech;in a letter dated April 4, 1979,Tom Coiten, Chair-man of theFinBoard, directed The Tl}~hto:- cease an publication and

,other production operations;- incur no further debts orfinancial liabilities;- turn over all assets andsupplies to Finboard;- turn over all financial rec-ords to Finboard.

(The letter is reproducedat right.)

The $50,000 loan was ap-proved in 1976 for The Tech'spurc hase of new, state -of-t he-art typesetting equipment. Atthe time, it was expected thatThe Tech, would be able to payback the money by raising fundsthrough advertisement sales,outside production work, andsolicitation of alumni. Sincethen, it has become clear thatThe Tech. is run by "twits,twerps, and wimps who justcan't get their act together,"says Colten, "It became clearwhen we saw what equipmentthey bought with the loan money- poorly designed, and out-dated - that they don't knowwhat they're doing when itcomes to newspaper publica-tion. But we were encouragedby Dean Robert Holden to 'rideout the storm' and give The'Tech a couple of years tolearn. " CoIten said that thoseyears are up - and they havenot learned yet.

At'The Tech's office lastnight, though, it was "businessas usual" - they had that onelast issue to put out, and ap-parently felt that the show mustgo on.

The Tech,was founded in1881, and until 1970was theofficial newspaper of MIT. Inthat year, its downfall began:no longer was it the officialnewspaper, and suddenly therewas strong competition -1irgo,thursday, Tech Talk: - whichmade it impossible to' maintainthe size and quality which hadmade The Tech one of the mostrespected college newspapersin the country. In fact, as of1969, plans were made to makeThe Tech a daily newspaper;those plans had to be scuttledin 1970.

Since then, The Tech, hasstumbled and faltered. Lastyear, the twin blows of thestart of The Review (a. k, a.The Beaver] and the 'merger ofthursday and Yoolsoo causedeven wore damage to the dod-dering, weakened giant that the

Yesterday, in a .ceremony in theplush Undergradu-ate Associationoffices in the Stu-dent Center, thisletter was presentedto the top two of- ,fleers of The Techby the chairman ofFinBoard. (letter:courtesy of GordonHaff, The Tech)

UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION

'newspaper had become.We at ThursdayVooDoo

mourn the passing of our olderbrother, The Tech. The samethinking as is involved in thefight between Boston Universityand the Boston University news-'paper, The Observer, seemsto be at play here. And look atwhat's happening at Boston Uni-versity now! Who knows whatcould happen at MIT?

Gordon Haff, ExecutiveEditor of The Tech, said, "Thenewspaper had become a jokeon campus. I can only hopethat it will be remembered forwhat it was, not what it is.

"We will, I hope, be re-membered, " Half said, "forcovering all the news - eventhat which no one else wantedto know. I think a lot of peoplereally enjoyed having the comicstrip and intramural sportsscores to read on Tuesday andFriday mornings. "

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYWAI.KE'R MEMORIAl. CAMBRIDGE a•• MASSACHUSETTS

OFF'CIl OF'FINANCE BOARD

UN 4-e1lOOEXT. 211M

April 4, )979

The Techattention: Steven F. Frann, Chairman

Thomas Curtis, Editor-in-Chief

Dear Steve and Tom,

As a result of the meeting of the Finance Board of Thursday, April 4, ]979,at which a review was made of the financial condition of The Tech which hadbeen uder continuous supervision since May, ]976, the following action wasapproved:

]. It was determined that the current liabilities of the activity(approximately$50,000.) could not reasonably be expected to be repaid, in the foreseeablefuture, given the present net income available from publication.

2. That the arrangements between the Finance Board and The Tech, in effectsince September, '76 had proved unworkable.

the Board directs The Techto cease all publication and other production operations.to incur no further debt/liability or other obligations.to turn over all assets and supplies, inventory, accountscollectable and capital to the Finance Board for liquidation,for payment to creditors, or for purposes as seen fit by theBoard.

d) to turn over all financial records to the Finance Board.4. In addition, the Board has requested that the ASA take steps necessaryto derecognize The Tech as a member of the Association of Student Activitiesin light of the above points. .

3. Thereforea)b)c)

5. This action was not taken lightly by the Board, and they had enteredthe arrangement with The Tech anticipating a more hopeful result. However,because of the extent of the impact of these accumulated liabilities onFinance Board and undergraduate resources, the Board felt that it could notproceed otherwise.

Sincerely,

Tom ColtenChairman, UA Finance Board

c: Steve Berez,Edwin DiamondEdward DonnellyRobert HoldenBarry NewmanKen Russell

Floundering Focus Folds Erg 0The most philosophical of

our campus newspapers, thelofty-minded rationalists ofErgo; are floundering in thephenomenology of their owninternal policies. As of theirlast staff meeting, the existen-tialists had fallen into deadlockdebate over the rationalism oftheir own journalistic existenceand publication.

As of the last coherentreport the upper echelons ofthe staff had developed asartrian defense of their poli-cies' holding that the journal-of-itself and the journal-for-itself were mutually dependentand self-justifying.

The hard entrenched psy-chotic right flank attacked onepistemological grounds with a ,cross interpretation of Heisen-berg and Kierkegaard. Accord-

ing to their conclusions, thesuper -ego of a social gestaltmust be directed by the moreprimal impulses of the specific"metabolism" of the social or-ganism.-, The thf rd faction, the wide

center of the supporting staff,responded alternately with wideeyed gawks and small whim-perlng noises and then withbroken beer-bottles and amock-bayonet switchbladecharge.

After the elite had depart-ed, calm descended as a resultof the mounting casualty tolls.Ergo is not expected to out outa future issue for some time.

These serious conflictsmust be resolved before pro-duction may resume, and as ofthis moment, of the editorialstaff, three have left town two

are in the hospital, and the re-mainder are being held underpolice protection. None wereavailable for comment, and noplan for a future meeting hadbeen made.

Tw 0 of those arrested hadbeen arraigned and released,and the other four stayed in-carcerated overnight.

This incident highlightsand reflects the serious lackof focus and proper directionin the imbalanced philosophic

,stance the journal of reasonfor some time. Although theirconceptual approach is not in-herently inappropriate, theirmethod of analysis and assump-tion-matrix-base are oftenstilted and weak. Their logicis highly convoluted and ob-scure. Ergo fell by force ofgravity.

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T'rancendental intersubjectivity i the concrete s If uffi cieutabsolute ground of being, out of which everything trans enden(and with it, the real and what exi ts in the world) obtains it'sexistential sense as the being of something that only in a relativeand the 1euiith complete sense is an existing thing namely as thebeing of an intentional unity which in turn exists as the result 0transcendental be towalof ense, of harmoniou confirmation, andfrom an habituality of lasting conviction that belongs to it by an .es ential necessity. _ ~

- Edmund Husserl

Nothing hurts less. **just different

I am dazed and confu ed because mylungs have not contained particles ofmari iuana smoke for months. In orderto get high, I have been consuming alco-hol, which makes me sick, mentally. Irealize that only the police and the CoastGuard can obtain marijuana, which 1 loveand need to function. Many systems ofmy nervous channels have ceased to fun-ction. The Pigs are a bunch of fascists,while the Coast Guard gets tans andbeautiful omen. 1now accept thesefacts. I will join the Coast Guard.

<sheaux fly pies r YES, we are wasted. Come in. U

- commander cosmic"We do drugs, yes, we do take and ,smoke and shoot and snort and rubinto our genitals and get high. Yup:"

- anonymous campuspatrolman

I will surely snort your cocaineEven if it's Sugaree.

- captain tripsso often times it happensthat we live our lives in chainsand we never even knowwe have the key ~~

<eagles ~,~tTime is just a box of rain;Though I see the morning sun,West of Moon I'd rather run,And the seagull flies again.

-the wanderer

So, after long debate, it comes to this: SupPose you do become thegreat scien.tist and discover the secrets of the universe, iohereuoonyou proc~azrr:it FUc~ this", .turn yourself into a being of pure energyand coexist imperuiously toitb the rest of the cosmos. Imagine thetrue realization of disembodied spirit. But then think: after eons andeons Of this godlike bullshit, you'd probably say It I'm bored, I know allthere is ••• " and you'd fold up and become nonexistent. Which is exac-tly u:hat 'Wouldhave happened if you hadn't discovered the secrets ofreality, Pretty fucking dismal prospect, no matter how you look at it,unle~s ... unless, of course, you're not alone. Surely we wouldn't bethe first to ,be there, and if one of us could get there than two surelycould. Which changes the prosbects from dismal nonexistance toete,:nal consciousness, which is, to say the least, a highly subjectiveoption.

-Mahari hi Yogi Indole ben Leary MDCCLXXVI

T'yy not to think of the non- involvedas being specifically limited to thoseof us who have been on the acid ex-perience, but rather consider it tobe an indication that the holder ofof said viewpoint to have been exper-ienced.

- Blue Streak::c ::c ::xc:c

Ether with a B stands for LSD.-B. S.

Mommy's alright, daddy's alrightthey just seem a little urierd.Surrender, but don't give yourself~way. _advice from Anita Bryant

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things do not become 'more true'with a greater incidence of timesthat you think they are.

-ricky?222222?22???=2;2??: : ;2s

i'Life is like a bucket oj shitwith the handles on the inside. "

-longm. greenhaus

And time still has nothing to do withit. Neither does four.

"They have no hope of deathand in their blind and unattaining statetheir miserable lives have sunk so lowthat they must envy every other fate. "

-psychiatrist's description ofmit sophomore slump

all quotes courtesy of the coalition forthe creation of subjective universes- ..

-tJ:m:m:m;:~One can comprehend the true nature ofthe mind through realizations as to thestructure, nature, and function of thebrain. Comparing the brain with alarge, complex computer, certainparallels can be drawn. The first isthat most of bhe equipment is memory--useless in and among itself. Now thatI've made that statement, I've forgottenthe rest. Never mind.

-the pessimistic philosopher~.~.. ~ ~§!.~.~.!'1.....the sig t 0 an ear ecomes,

with a flash of a word,the glance of an eye,that -diamond-like glance, becomes,

with the passage of time,the flash of a hypodermic syringe.it is only after jumping off of oneprecipitous edge, and just barelymissing the next, that one realizesthat.support the struggle of the iranianpeople for hash.

-handurriting on the wall. . . . ~ . . .'!O.