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digest 1997-06-28 #001


11:23 PM 6/27/97 -0700
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:34:47 -0700
From: Andrew Russ 
Subject: Re: Review of "I've Left:  A Manifesto of Science and
Art" by Bern Porter
>
>
>I'm new to this list, and didn't receive any procedural guidelines
when
>i signed on (at least as far as i remember), so pardon me if i just
>plunge ahead.
Allons, kamerado!
>I've just gotten a chance to read Andrew Russ's
>review of Bern Porter's manifesto, after just returning from a trip
>to Maine with a secondhand copy of Porter's *Sounds That Arouse Me*
in
>my suitcase.  I was intrigued enough by Andrew's (first-name or
last-name
>basis here?) discussion of Porter's ideas & writing that I'll be
keeping
>an eye
>out for the manifesto.  Who cld resist "I finger zero, readjust
my
>couch in a void that sloth built, / and do nothing"?
>
I've Left has been out of print for some time -- i lucked into
a used copy.  But much easier to find is James Schevill's biography
of Porter entitled "Where To Go, What To Do, When You Are Bern
Porter".  There's a review of it i wrote that's floating around
somewhere.
andrew