Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, Buzz, take it anyway you wish! S. Dimitrov > From: "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:29:00 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] The Golem Among Us > > Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't "petard," as to be "hoist by one's > own," French slang for fart? Farts, taffy, such a delightful mix of > misappropriate metaphors, S.D.! I am not sure what you mean by > "intellectual golem [sic]," please explain. I don't agree with all of > what Susan Sontag has to discuss, but I certainly find her analysis > provocative. Do you find Sontag more or less interesting than limp > pasta? > > Buzz Hausner > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of Slobodan Dimitrov > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:08 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos > > And yet, how much of it is just plain Sontag. Being one of the New World > Order's original pied-pipers, I can bet that there won't any soul > searching > on her part. > Thankfully her petard has just about run its historical course. This > piece > of taffy reads more like the kind of press release DoD wished it could > do. > It reads, somewhat, as though from another time, when there existed a > kind > of intellectual golem, nationally and internationally, which another > Federal agency was able to garner in its camp during the Cold War's > culture > wars. > S. Dimitrov > > > >> From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:57:09 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos >> >> At 12:11 PM 5/24/2004 -0400, you wrote: >>> Cover story in yesterday's NYT Magazine entitled The Photographs Are > Us. >>> It is much more a piece about the U.S., Iraq and torture than about >>> photography, but she makes some interesting observations about the >>> photos. Similarly, Sarah Boxer had a Times column yesterday on the > same >>> subject. >> >> I kept hoping that the photos would be revealed to be hoaxes like the > ones >> of the British soldiers. I guess I have too much faith in the > ultimate >> humanity of most people to believe that such things actually happen. > We >> need to know about it when it happens but I am so tired of hearing of >> nothing but how horrible we all are. It's time for me to go to > Honduras >> with a medical brigade and renew my faith in humanity. >> >> Tina >> >> >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information