From the Thing:

The time has come to put the good Kofi Annan to use. As glorious as total
revenge will be for our war-lovers, a truce between Saladin and the Crusader
Zionists is in the interest of the entire human race. Long before the dread
monotheists got their hands on history's neck, we had been taught how to
handle feuds by none other than the god Apollo as dramatised by Aeschylus in
The Eumenides (a polite Greek term for the Furies who keep us daily company
on CNN).

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The Oresteia is one of my Genius 2000 references. I used to try to spam the
idea of the Eumenides and the Furies (Erinyes) out to people before the end
of the twentieth century, just so I could say I had. My version of it is
Albos/Koros/Hybris/Ate.

For some abominable reason, I cannot remember if Gore Vidal is still alive.
I know he's late in life, which makes me unhappy and insecure. I want to
talk to him about Genius 2000. I also want a Pepsi.

This life is a scary one, for which I feel Doug Copeland has not adequately
prepared me.

Last and least, David Bowie has been on my mind a little, also Sir Paul
McCartney. These are men who used to be changing the world during say the
Kruschev-Brezhnev era. Now Bowie says, maybe out of the side of his mouth a
notch, that the rock star is dead, a victim of Napster or whatever comes
after it.

Doesn't the same apply to the novelist, the painter, the genius in any genre
or discipline? If it doesn't I want to know why. I have to know why. I've
got to find out why.

Ashes in the electrometier,

Max Herman
genius2000.net

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