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_ | \ | \ | | \ __ | |\ \ __ _____________ _/_/ | | \ \ _/_/ _____________ | ___________ _/_/ | | \ \ _/_/ ___________ | | | _/_/_____ | | > > _/_/_____ | | | | /________/ | | / / /________/ | | | | | | / / | | | | | |/ / | | | | | | / | | | | | / | | | | |_/ | | | | | | | | c o m m u n i c a t i o n s | | | |________________________________________________________________| | |____________________________________________________________________| ...presents... Curious Lack of Vigor by Clench >>> a cDc publication.......1994 <<< -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc- ____ _ ____ _ ____ _ ____ _ ____ |____digital_media____digital_culture____digital_media____digital_culture____| There were many of them, and they were all in the same place, roughly, though they had came and left at different times. Outwardly, to casual observers, they all appeared normal but for their singular, strange obsessions. One of them, perhaps the first, collected hats and gloves. His childhood frustration at his father's abandonment of his family, combined with his mother's stern, clerkish demeanor, manifested one day in this behavior. Another, believing he was excluded from the middle-class which he so aspired to join by his illegitimate birth, began collecting crushed melons in the trunk of his car. A third, beaten severely by his father on a routine basis and sold into slavery with his sister for a brief period of time, finally gave in to his uncontrollable urge to wrap empty presents and top them with a neatly tied bow. They had many justifications for their strange actions. "I am striking out at my mother for never giving me the affection I needed as a child," the glove and hat collector claimed. "The hats and gloves are souvenirs, symbols of affection that I take and keep. My proof is that my victims are always women. By taking their hats and gloves, I am symbolically taking the affection I was denied from my mother." "By crushing the melons, I am expressing my power and worthiness to be a member of the middle class," claimed the second. "While I am crushing the melons, I feel powerful. I feel a great feeling of successfulness when the melon crushes, and a feeling of accomplishment. I keep the melons in my trunk so that they will always be available for when I finally get the opportunity to demonstrate my worthiness to those whose job it is to admit me." "I am striking out at society and rebelling against my father," claims the bow-tier. "I wrap the presents and exercise great skill in tying the bows, then I strategically place the presents where they will be found. Imagine the excitement the finder feels when they stumble on these packages, neatly wrapped and exquisitely tied, and imagine their disappointment when the presents prove empty. My rebellion succeeds through demoralization." Yet, in spite of these cogent descriptions, conventional psychology can only point to flattened affect and looseness of association. "Classic symptoms," psychologists will claim, never admitting the pristine beauty of nor fittingness of these actions into their analyses. _______ __________________________________________________________________ / _ _ \|Demon Roach Undrgrnd.806/794-4362|Kingdom of Shit.....806/794-1842| ((___)) |Cool Beans!..........415/648-PUNK|Polka AE {PW:KILL}..806/794-4362| [ x x ] |Metalland Southwest..713/579-2276|ATDT East...........617/350-STIF| \ / |The Works............617/861-8976|Ripco ][............312/528-5020| (' ') | Save yourself! Go outside! DO SOMETHING! | (U) |==================================================================| .ooM |Copyright (c) 1994 cDc communications and Clench. | \_______/|All Rights Reserved. 08/01/1994-#272|