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Subject: [Leica] The Golem Among Us
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue May 25 07:20:34 2004

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
>> 
>> 
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