d i u 5 3 august 1994 It has come to my or my attention that scholarly or literary hoaxes may have been perpetrated at IU. Indeed there is reason to believe that the letter that purports to be from Marianne Moore in DIU 3 may be a forgery. Even the hint of suspicion of such unreliability can, and legitemately does, undermine the greatest institutions. Such vile disregard for the machinery of truth production must be vigorously sought out and exposed. It has been reported at other universities that researchers have tampered with their results in scientific experiments in order to make it appear that cures for cancer and other dread diseases may be at hand. I or I myself have proven that since 1981 as many as five hundred professors of literature have made references to the works of Jacques Derrida on the basis of no more knowledge than a casual reading of Gayatri Spivak's introduction to _Grammatology_. I or I am afraid that Cliff's notes scholarship is widespread. Only last year at the MLA convention, as I was on my way to a hear a panel on the prederite conjunctive in Slavic oral poetry, I overheard an illustrious Marxist-feminist scholar on the elevator opine that she was amazed at how many conferees failed to understand that the only purpose of such gatherings was to get laid. I or I was so upset that I couldn't pay attention to the panel. It is the policy of IU that all bogus scholarship will be rooted out and its perpetrators will be suspended from international conferences for two years. The crime is grave; the punishment is fitting. --Thus, Albert or Hubert MOURNING THE DEATH OF POETRY for D.H. Lawrence We diddle the hypocritical stasis And call it parataxis Perverse cold word of the parrot's Antedated utterance... And let the vomit in the sink Go down the American drain. For running water is how we think The stink we think our thoughts remain. --Kimberly Filbee Is the "HM" "PJ" translates [DIU 4] the same HM who declares, under "Albert or Hubert"'s authority, _the aesthetic existence stands condemned_? If this condemnation is to carry weight in any court save that of the aesthetic itself, let all the witnesses who are still alive be called. Eichmann's tribunal did as much in Israel. "Except for his monotonous string of magnifying judgments-- which, moreover, are intended for an imaginary public--he uses language like a drug, in order to immerse himself in his secret delights; if he _does_ speak, it is in order to deceive or betray; in short, he is a prisoner of a stolen, a sham speech. In order for him to reach the point of planning to _make himself understood_, a radical conversion of his attitude toward others is required; and even that is not enough: he must relearn to speak." --Sartre, _Saint Genet_ I once met a woman who relearned speech--hearing her was like seeing a river on fire. Her names were Pleasure, Sensuousness, Beauty, Truth, Art, Freedom. I hear her voice even now. On the site where I met her many stupid children were once murdered, spiritually, and still are, by men who claim to repeat her message. By River-of-Fire's false descendants, by the very men who perverted her voice, her words which burn and wash away, all at once. The vision has thus become the very statute that condemns us. I love her, and hate her armies. History is a perversion of experience, a drug which turns all understanding into sham speech. Only when Kent State ceases its existence as the murder of four bystanders, a show of force performed before some imaginary public, and becomes instead the murder of youth itself, a river of fire poured on youth's imagination, only then will the aesthetic stand condemned, judged by the aesthetics's truest followers, we daughter destroyers of the vision. --Patriarchal Poetry THE MU-MOSAIC INTERDE-DISCIPLINARY FREE RESEARCH ORCHESTRA "like waking up again for the first time into an explosive dawn of fire" Revived by the breath of ghosts, charting the flight of angels, the Mu-Mosaic Interde-disciplinary Free Research Orchestra announces its first gig since its now well documented break from the Lost Soul's Black Hole Sun Ship Orchestra (no relation): "space is a knot. If we're to have space we must first untie it." i.e. "what thou freest well will remain" Only in the opening of space does place become. The Mu-Mosaic Interde- disciplinary Free Research Orchestra recognizes the last opening of new space to be populated en masse (ca. Hiroshima) to be drastically inadequate. The Mu-Mosaic Interde-disciplinary Free Research Orchestra acknowledges the threat (and promise) of another space only just now becoming apparent (a space, perhaps, cultivated in the absence made evident by the by-now cliche post-atomic fall-out.) Not that we're interested in fall-out. Or cliche (the endless regurgitation of forms). Obviously. But that what declares itself be heard (thus, (the first DIU assignment to be recommended by the as-of-yet undescribed student body is to finish the above paragraph using one word.) --Scope Herbert and the monkeys There are more intelligent monkeys than there are monkeys more intelligent than Herbert. ---Are there monkeys more intelligent than Herbert? There are monkeys more intelligent than Herbert. ---Are the monkeys more intelligent than Herbert intelligent monkeys? The monkeys more intelligent than Herbert are more intelligent monkeys. ---How intelligent is Herbert? Herbert is more intelligent than some monkeys. ---Is Herbert a monkey? Herbert is not a monkey. ---Are we monkeys? We are not monkeys. ---Is Herbert more intelligent than we are? Herbert is not more intelligent than we are. ---How intelligent are we? We are more intelligent than Herbert and the monkeys. ---Do Herbert and the monkeys know this? Herbert and the monkeys are not that intelligent. --JA air.txt wrpi troy ny 21 july 94 0830-1200 Jimi Hendrix--"Like A Rolling Stone"/ Jimi Plays Monterey R.E.M.--"Wolves, Lower"/ Chronic Town Miekal And--"Babbaly"/ cassette 1990 - R.E.M.--"Rotary 10"/ Dead Letter Office Wrestling Worms--"Ballad of a Crinkled Brain"/ cassette 12-89 Bongwater--"Last Days|Breaking All the Rules|Too Much Sleep| Talent|et al."/Too Much Sleep (entire) Elliot Sharp--"BLU-E"/terraplane - Mo Boma--"Slolooblade"/ The Drowned World - Acting Trio--"Acting no 4|Acting no 13"/ BYG Volume 14 Acting Trio - Cusco--"TULA"/ Apurimac II - Return to Ancient America - Charles Amirkhanian--"Vers Les Anges"/ From A to Z Pierre Akendengue--"Rondomori"/ Never Stand Still Black Uhuru--"Dubtown"/ Positive Dub Beres Hammond--"Just Say No"/ In Control Deconstruction--"LA Song" (partial)/ Deconstruction Hieronymus Firebrain--"Camel Driver|Crime Prevention Waltz|Runaway| YaStillDooitRite"/ there Miekal And--"Destruction of Mindfuck Diplomacy"/ cassette 1990 African Head Charge--"One Destination"/ - African Head Charge--"No, Don't Follow Fashion/ In Pursuit of Shashamane Land Wrestling Worms--"If the World Gets Any Closer..."/ cassette 12-89 Lisa Germano--"destroy the Flower"/ happiness The Jam--"No One in the World"/ extras FOI: monday's Lambda-MOO visitation brought a 41 pp. transcript with varying degrees of chaotic & interesting material. (Our favorite encounter: >>Ultraviolet_Guest says, "Oh, DIU... Does that have something to do with drunken driving?"<< We will try it again in the near. If you have contributions to make, or a favorite MOO you would like to amble around on with students from this Univercity, please contact DIU: cf2785@albnyvms.bitnet DIU is an open weekly (c)irculated by the logic of snowflakes & wepress