On Feb 14, 6:27 am, " wrote:
BILL BROCK'S BIG LIE


I knew you could do it! I never stopped believing in you, kiddo.

However, your performance is a bit off-key. You and I know what's
going on, but it's in your interest not to make the discursive reality
so transparent to the gallery.

:-)


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The latest Brockian joust at the windmill he
evident imagines Sam to be is that the latter ought to
be kicked off the Executive Board, legally or
illegally, because he sells a book written by bogeyman
Jefferson Poland. By that logic virtually every book
seller in America would be ineligible for membership
on the USCF Executive Board. The contents of many
psychology books that are widely sold contain
hair-raising accounts of human depravity, beginning
with Freud. As for the thousands of novels in which
fiction really has outstripped reality, those who sell
them would also be unfit to serve on the board. If you
own a Border's or a Barnes &Noble outlet, you had
better forget about working within the chess movement,
if poor Mr. Brock ever has his way.

13. (for Parr) Was _Sex Marchers_ (ISBN 1881373053) written by
Jefferson Poland alone?

Hint: http://www.samsloan.com/sexmarchers.htm

14. (compound question, for Parr) Is there anything objectionable in
the following passage from _Sex Marchers_? Or is this a philosophy of
child rearing to which Parr would subscribe? Or would Parr seek a
libertarian distance from the question, feeling that while he might
not personally subscribe to the philosophy, one's children--like one's
other chattel--are one's own affair?

[A sexually free human being] goes naked most of the time, except
when there is some positive reason (not shame or modesty or fear) to
dress up. "Clothes are bandages for sick bodies", says Tuli
Kupferberg. I believe nudism is fundamental and necessary prerequisite
for sexual freedom. Clothes commonly build barriers of sexual fear and
hostility. We learn "Don't look" when we are still too young to
comprehend "Don't ****". Each adult needs to spend several years
living in a nude society, in order to overcome the bad effects of our
shame-filled childhoods. And our children should be completely spared
the morbid sickness of hiding their beautiful bodies like some sort of
carrion deemed too foul for the light of day .

15. (for readers of Foucault) What is the relevance of the concept of
the author-function to the passage cited above? Cliff's Notes
available he http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english...ts/author.html
Would the reader like to bring about the figurative "death of the
author" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author (here I would
call particular attention to Foucault's juridical function) in favor
of a purely textual practice of reading (the pleasure of the child-
molesting text)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_of_the_Text

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Completely OT, but an amazing book on my nightstand; interesting
counterpoint to Chasseguet-Smirgel:

Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View (MIT, 2006) Available in Borders and
Barnes & Noble's. :-)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item...pe=2&tid=10762