Thirteen Great Literary Voyages of The Jolly
Roger
1. Macarthur
Study Bible
2. Shakespeare
3. Moby
Dick
4. Catcher
in The Rye
5. American
Founding Documents
6. Thoreau
7. Emmerson
8.
Plato
9.
Aristotle
10. The
Great Gatsby
11. Norton
Anthology of Poetry
12.
C.S. Lewis
13. Drake Raft Field
Trip
The Jolly Roger's
Top Rock
1.
Gun's & Roses
2. Tom
Petty
3. Van
Halen
4.
Aerosmith
5.
Smashing Pumpkins
6.
Nirvanna Live
7.
Ozzy/ Black Sabbath
8.
Pink Floyd
9.
Bob Dylan
10. The
Beatles
11.
Led Zepplin
12.
Eric Clapton
13. Van Halen
14. Beethoven's
Complete Symphonies
15. James Taylor
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| American Girls &
Summer Reading
by Becket Knottingham With most
everyone cleared out of Chapel Hill for the summer, I yet linger, as I
have found that the best way to travel these days is to stay in one place.
I have always sought to navigate the greater distances, to get to know my
neighbors, to walk the expanse between the Physics and English
departments, and then take to the streets to write the poetry that can
transport my heart to the far reaches of your soul. Pick up a copy of
The Odyssey, and soon you'll find yourself transported
five-thousand years back in time, and then five-thousand years into the
future, as the keel of every bold dream is fashioned from the same
material that the classics were made of. You shall find no humble
statesman, nor subtle visionary, nor devoted scientist, nor gentle poet
who did not set out navigating by the fixed stars of the Greats. So if ye
yearn for first class travel and adventure, open a Great Book. Wherever
you go, a copy of Shakespeare or the Bible is almost always within reach,
so walk the few extra feet, read the words, and sail yer souls God's
infinite distance. My generation has crossed the country and traveled the
world a million times, yet so few have ever journeyed through Thoreau's
Walden, or The Declaration of Independence, or The
Constitution, or Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and thus so few
have ever even seen America. We've been four-wheelin' and free-fallin',
kayaking, camping, and canoeing; we've scaled the loftiest mountains and
dived the deep, but we have not yet ascended a contemporary literature of
our own equal in magnitude to our eternal souls. Take it from the captain
here-- if ye refrain from reading the Greats, ye may see the
entire world
and yet never come to know it. It would be like falling in love with a
picture, and never glimpsing the deeper nature of her spirit.
There was only ever but one reason that Odysseus endured to return from
his perilous voyages, and that was to be with Penelope. Holden Caufield
journeyed back home one Christmas to find infinite solace within his kid
sister Phoebe's pristine spirit. Jay Gatsby tried to buy his way home to
his first love, but money wasn't enough to purchase a passage back to the
pristine dream of Daisy that yearning had embroidered within his memory.
Tom
Petty described the sentiment, For one desperate moment there, he
crept back in her memory, God it's so painful, when something that's so
close is still so far out of reach. . . she's an American girl.
Without
the green light at the end of her dock, all that is noble and good within
the romantic's heart would forever remain at sea.
Shakespeare compared her to a summer's day, and
Axl
Rose
described
her with she's got a smile that it seems to me, reminds me of childhood
memories, whenever they were as fresh as the bright blue skies. I
thought
it was pretty cool when
Axl
punched David Bowie when Bowie made the
mistake of hitting on the girl the song had been written for-- it was
something you could see Alexander Hamilton doing. But then
Axl
kind of ruined it all by punching the girl, and dressing like one too.
Hamilton once wrote to his future wife Elizabeth Schuyler,
I had a charming dream two or three nights ago. I thought I had just
arrived at Albany and found you asleep on a green near the house, and
beside you in an inclined posture stood a Gentleman whom I did not know.
He had one of your hands in his, and seemed fixed in silent admiration.
As you may imagine, I reproached him with his presumption and asserted my
claim. He insisted on a prior right; and the dispute grew (heated). This
I fancied awoke you, when yielding to a sudden impulse of joy, you flew
into my arms and decided the contention with a kiss.
Axl's beautiful ballad, Sweet Child O' Mine, ends with the question "Where
do we go now? Where do we go?" It's a question which oft plagues this
Godless generation, a generation which is left with naught after the
fleeting sentiment of secular love is consummated.
Axl
asked the question,
and Kurt
Cobain answered it by shooting heroin and then shooting
himself.
What had happened was that by the time grunge had rolled around in 1991,
the American girl had been pretty much deconstructed, and Cobain
had
been
left with nothing left to live for. You've gotta admit that Courtney Love
isn't exactly an "American girl," and neither's Marilyn Manson, nor
Hillary Clinton, nor Joyce Carol Oates, nor the rest of the
Geffen/liberal-industrial-cultural-complex employees. They're all
feminists and then some, riding the cresting wave of cultural decline,
inheriting and exalting in all the petty vices of mankind, satiating
superficial, temporal lusts for prestige and power, while casting aside
all the vital virtues of womenhood. It's the oldest trick in the
liberal's handbook-- any time a member of one of their chosen groups
engages in vice or
treachery, they sanctify it, and thus feminists are allowed to get away
with murder-- the murder of the Great Books and the American Girl. They've
been highly successful
in displacing the classic American girl in the popular culture, but not
within my heart nor within my dreams. About the closest the
liberal-industrial-cultural-complex has come to rendering her is
with Dawson from Dawson's creek.
But when I hear "American girl," what comes to mind is something far more
pristine and permanent than the feminist's fleeting reign. In my mind's
eye, I picture somebody who would be proud to be their kid's mom. Somebody
along the lines of what Tom
Petty described as, "She's a good girl,
loves
her mama, loves Jesus, and America to." That would be the same Jesus who
said, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made
them male and female, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother,
and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore
they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder."
And when you find yourself falling into her eyes this summer, you'll feel
the need to apprehend your immortal soul, to present love's airy
nothingness with a local habitation and a name, and to anchor the
ungraspable phantom of life in phrases. You'll feel yourself drawn back
on home, to God's fundamental morality. The pristine feminine is the
anchor of the noble masculine, and should the chain of God's binding love
and attraction
be cut, should faith in her virtue and chastity be broken,
the noble masculine shall be set adrift, while the pristine feminine
will be consigned to the bottom of the sea. And without these two
fundamental
societal entities, each equally wondrous in its unique aspects, no family,
nor community, nor nation, nor civilization can last.
When you find forever in her eyes and
see her in that immortal sense, you'll find yourself at a loss of words.
Do not be afraid of drowning, mate, should you lose your breath, for I'll
tell
you how to get back to shore to wed her beauty's fleeting truth to some
eternal law. Open your notebook to set the silence down, and map the
sentiment out so you might find your way back, and so that other
adventurers might know where to look. Long ago, Proverb 31, the last word
in the Book of Proverbs, was written in this spirit:
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall
have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to
come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of
kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread
of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the
LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in
the gates.
When with her, you'll start thinking upon character, and conviction, and
honor, and duty, and fidelity. Thus you'll find yourself stalwartly
opposed to the fundamental precepts of postmodern liberalism, which is a
sad satire of classical liberalism, a scientific farce, a travesty of
reason, and a vicious missive directed against the American girl.
But she is immortal, and that is why liberalism is destined to
join the grave with liberals, along with all the rhymeless, meterless,
meaningless
poetry that they've penned.
Anyone with an adventurous heart might
yet
find
her if they only get a hold of the right maps, which will help in
navigating
through the contemporary culture's fog. So it is that we've compiled a
list of The Thirteen Great Literary Voyages of The Jolly Roger,
which
ye'll find
gracing the margins. Some of the Literary Voyages refer to authors,
like Shakespeare, whereas some refer to books, like the Bible, whereas
others refer to a general movement, such the American Founding, and one
of them is an essential anthology for all seafarers, The
Norton Anthology of
Poetry.
Like the fixed stars in the celestial globe used by
seafarers throughout the ages to find their way home, the Great Books
shall help you find the American Girl. The best map to begin with would
of course be
the Bible, and we highly recommend The
McArthur New King James Version Study Bible. Virtually every verse is
accompanied by insightful commentary expounding upon the historical
context and deeper meanings of the Word. The Bible shall serve ye well
in life and aboard The Jolly Roger, and so shall the two volume Riverside
Shakespeare. Any edition of Shakespeare should do, but the Riverside
Edition, complete with commentary and footnotes to help you navigate
throughout the plays, is ideal for those just setting sail as well as
experienced seafarers. Start with Hamlet, and perhaps the
prince's predicament shall remind you of your own, with the Great Books
murdered, the heritage of your kingdom endangered, Ophelia in a state
of insanity and depression, and corrupt kings
inhabiting the contemporary literary thrones.
And I say
there's a literary revolution and renaissance underway out here, even
though the only time CNBC mentions The Jolly Roger is in the
context of
high school shootings. But television, based upon sound and picture,
offers little insight into exalted
literary
matters and the profundity of the soul. The New York Times deemed
jollyroger.com as
"simply
unprecedented," adding that the site "teems with discussion, the kind that
goes well beyond freshman lit 101," and The Los Angeles Times
referred to
the classical portal as "a lavish virtual community known as The Jolly
Roger," but so far CNBC and the majority of the mass media has fallen
short of reporting the real story. Instead of trumpeting the triumph of
thousands of youngsters finding faith aboard The Jolly Roger, the media
concentrates on their area of expertise-- darkness and decline. CNBC
& friends always wait until
one or two psycho kids with BMW's and negligent postmodern parents pull
some psycho stunt, and that's when they mention The Jolly
Roger Cookbook, which is some sort of a bomb-building manual I've
never
read, and a dervish entity which we have absolutely no affiliation with.
I'm
getting a little tired of the way the media lets all the wackos define my
generation, while virtually ignoring a Great Books renaissance. As Drake
Raft said long ago, "Only if I wallowed in grunge, if I resigned myself to
being a slacker, and if I accepted the generation-x label and said I had
no identity, would the pernicious liberal-editorial-cultural tyrants
acknowledge me. And thus to be was not to be. So it was until the WWW set
me soul free."
The real story, if anyone wants to report it, is that the three
sonneteers are capataining the world's largest literary journal, and it's
publishing rhyming, metered poetry.
The real story out here is that despite all the thousands of daily
deconstructions,
affronts, and assaults directed against Truth, Honor, Decency, Courage,
Higher Art, Literary Beauty, and Traditional Ideals by the "experts" of
the day, the Great Books and
The Jolly Roger are dominating the higher culture in this brave new
medium. When the postmodern fog clears, as the liberal industrial
cultural complex succumbs to the rust and rot that all material
Godlessness is subject to, there shall be three tall masts, and he who
signs aboard shall be he who lasts.
And should ye come across a wayward American girl during yer voyages, be
patient. Should ye walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
fear no evil: for God shall be with ye; and his rod and staff shall
comfort ye. So be gentle now, mate, for wanton displays of flesh and
imprudent
behavior are demanded of young ladies during the liberal's temporary
reign, where thousands upon thousands of temptations are encouraged from
adolescent women, as the fading boomers drag us down to liberalism within
the schools, the colleges, and the popular culture. By encouraging teens
to become adulterers and fornicators and denying them the Bible, the
liberal imperialists sign young souls aboard, just as soon as they are
able to
write. By deconstructing virtue's
reference marker of female chastity, the righteous context in which liars,
tempters, perverts, and thieves are reviled is dissipated, and the
postmodern
lawyer and government official prevail. And as we are ruled more
by emotion, more by pleasure and pain, and less by eternity's wisdom,
our vital freedoms diminish. George Washington, in his infinite wisdom,
would be of great use to young girls these days, if only the feminists
would let his words be read in the place of their lesbian-lover
literature:
It would be no great departure from truth to say, that it rarely happens
otherwise than that a thorough-placed coquette dies in celibacy, as a
punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks,
words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make
overtures that they may be rejected.
Instead of Washington's words, in this callous culture the American girl
is bombarded with condoms and
the pill in school, and with relentless pornagraphic sex tips in checkout
aisles in
the supermarkets. She is schooled in seduction and conditioned to become
a pawn in the liberals'
government-funded free love programs. And the American boy is afforded
thousands
of opportunities to satiate his baser nature, as he is encouraged to walk
through the wider gate by the mass marketers of Godless temperament, and
their cohorts and accomplices in academia who've deconstructed the
Classical beacons which once helped the loftier spirit navigate. So it is
that he'll often find
the American girl in bars
these days, dancing
to Snoop as if she were beast straight out of the jungle-- even pristine
girls
try it on for size-- and you can be sure she'll find some lost soul that's
happy to treat her that way throughout the night, where they can try
everything they learned in sex ed, at the movies, and on TV, where a pill
solves most every problematic byproduct and abortions solve the rest.
Once
upon a
time, devoted parents were able to protect girls from the gutter, but
today,
even the
most dutiful parents who survive the brutalities of secularism
find this a difficult task, as they're under constant assault from the
schools, the sitcoms, the publishers,
and the government
alike. While
the liberals are popularizing adultery and abortion and single motherhood
on the television, in the schools, and in the universities, their tag-team
cultural
cohorts are assaulting the sacred institution of the family by
taxing parents to death. The
children are sent off to be cared for by the state, while women are forced
out
of the homes to
serve the bureaucracy so that the bureaucracy might institutionalize their
children. Once upon a time,
women were allowed to remain home while men voyaged forth. You'll
recall that there were
no women aboard the Pequod, and at the
end of The Heart of
Darkness, some of ye might remember that Marlow described Kurtz's
Intended
with,
Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of
letters and the girl's
portrait. She struck me as beautiful -- I mean she had a beautiful
expression. I know that the sunlight can be made to lie, too, yet one felt
that no manipulation of light and pose could have conveyed the delicate
shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed ready to listen
without mental reservation, without suspicion, without a thought for
herself. . .
Kurtz had perished within the depths of the jungle, consumed by a gaping,
Godless hole within his soul, after having spent his last few months as
a barbarous, murderous tyrant. His last words had been, "The
horror,
The horror." When Marlow returned to civilization to tell Kurtz's
fiance of the dark death he'd died, she asked Marlow what Kurtz's final
worlds had been.
" 'To the very end,' I said, shakily. 'I heard his very last words....' I
stopped in a fright.
" 'Repeat them,' she murmured in a heart-broken tone. 'I want -- I want --
something -- something -- to -- to live with.'
"I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was
repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that
seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. 'The
horror! The horror!'
" 'His last word -- to live with,' she insisted. 'Don't you understand I
loved him -- I loved him -- I loved him!'
"I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.
" 'The last word he pronounced was -- your name.'
"I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by
an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of
unspeakable pain. 'I knew it -- I was sure!' . . . She knew. She was sure.
I heard her weeping; she had hidden her face in her hands. It seemed to me
that the house would collapse before I could escape, that the heavens
would fall upon my head. But nothing happened. The heavens do not fall for
such a trifle. Would they have fallen, I wonder, if I had rendered Kurtz
that justice which was his due? Hadn't he said he wanted only justice? But
I couldn't. I could not tell her. It would have been too dark -- too dark
altogether...."
But today the American girl knows the secular darkness. They shout and
scream it at her. They get her drunk, drug her up, dumb her down, give
her an abortion, starve her, send her out into the Jungle,
into the military, into the 9-9 workforce, and away from her children.
She's a bit confused, matey, and a bit cynical, as no longer are her
spiritual virtues valued in the liberal's dominant context, nor her
infinite soul, but only her present potential to contribute to the economy
and serve the Dow. And as she is encouraged to ignore her very own subtle
spirit, by
and by she begins to lose sight of the fathers, the boyfriends, and the
husbands
who would have loved and honored and cherished her eternal soul. So it
withers further, and she turns towards her body, towards bulimia and
anorexia, towards vanity and vice. As her souls wanes, her fathers,
boyfriends, and husbands are left with less and less honor to defend, and
they begin to lose their reasons to return on home. But we must let our
faith guide us here, mate, for beyond the postmodern fog, I promise ye her
chaste treasures yet exist. Do not be afraid to gently navigate by faith
through the fog, to shine the bright beacon of God's reason so that she
might see the form of her exiled spirit.
For deep within her there lies her true soul, created in God's image, and
as our context advances, we shall get to know it. Have faith in her,
though she succumbs to alcohol's temptation and uses it as an excuse to
tempt others, for she is but acting the liberals' script, where women are
encouraged to bring out the worst in men, so that men might bring out the
worst in women, and causes for government agencies might be fabricated.
Remember this mate-- each assault on common sense and common decency
is a victory for the
secular social scientist,
administrator, and lawyer, as they can only promote the need for their
controlling
purpose
and their power in God's absence. When Jefferson pondered the wall of
separation between church and state, never did he dream that postmodern
nihilists would triumph in deconstructing the Judeo-Christian God and
transforming the state
into the church, yet retaining the name of government. In the context in
which Jefferson wrote, words yet meant things. Upon his wife's tomb
stone, Jefferson had the following poem engraved, which was taken from
Homer's Iliad
If in the melancholy shades below,
The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow,
Yet mine shall sacred last; mine undecayed,
Burn on through death and animate my shade.
Tie yourself to the mast of your core beliefs as you sail on by
the secular sirens. Stand by quietly and be firm in your own actions, so
that they might
match your convictions of temperance, abstinence, and fidelity, and this
cultural renaissance shall be ours. And I say the tides are turning,
mates, buoying a brave new ship upon the WWW. We write for all
generations aboard the Good Ship, and although the rising generation shall
lead the renaissance, all generations shall share, as all are united in
the eternal community of souls. Today's children shall live the Judeo
Christian heritage that time hath embroidered within their souls, and woe
to those wayward teachers, state officials, and administrators who stand
in the way of God. Woe to those who have been engaging in this barbarous
campaign against the
American Girl.
Now I love rock'n'roll, but I also think that with the
thousands upon thousands of bands, and the hundreds of aspiring movie
mavens with vulgar scripts in their hands, there's yet room for a couple
of traditional books penned in the context of the classics and devoted to
God. I really think my generation would go for something like The Drake Raft Field Trip.
With all the liberal tax and tuition
subsidized literary journals, I say there's yet room for a literary
frigate transporting poetry which rhymes and mean things through this
culture. I think
a renaissance would rock, and I'm pretty sure Noah Webster would agree, as
concerning the American girl, he once
wrote:
To young men I would recommend that their treatment of females
should always be characterized by kindness, delicacy and respect. The
tender sex look to men for protection and support. Females when properly
educated and devoted to their appropriate duties, are qualified to add
greatly to the happiness of society, and of domestic life. Endowed with
finer sensibilities than men, they are quick to learn and practice the
civilities and courtesies of life; their reputation requires the nice
observance of the rules of decorum; and their presence and example impose
most salutary restraints on the ruder passions and less polished manners
of the other sex. In the circle of domestic duties, they are cheerful
companions of their husbands; they give race and joy to prosperity;
consolation and support to adversity. When we see an affectionate wife
devoted to her domestic duties, cheering her husband with smiles, and as a
mother, carefully tending and anxiously guarding her children and forming
their minds to virtue and to piety; or watching with conjugal or maternal
tenderness over the bed of sickness; we cannot fail to number among the
chief temporal advantages of Christianity; the elevation of the female
character. Let justice then be done to their merits; guard their purity;
defend their honor; treat them with tenderness and respect.
-- From Noah Webster, Value of the Bible and Excellence of the
Christian
Religion
From: CAPTAIN R
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Misty
Dear Becket,
I just read The starbuckclassicalpoetry.com Classical Poetry Port page, and the photo of
"Misty" brought tears and a pain to my heart.
It's not sexism that makes me say that the world of the Pequod is not for
women, at least not for women like Misty. God does not think it wrong for
men to leave women in the port with hearthfires burning and a light in the
window. Don't expect nor ask them to ship aboard the whaler. He created
them different, no matter what the feminists say.
(1 Pet 3:7) Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding,
giving
honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of
the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
CAPTAIN R
P.S. Where do I find a copy of "Wrath of the Jolly Roger"?
From: CAPTAIN R
To: Becket
Subject: Re: An American Girl
Dear Becket,
The women who take offense when you open a door for them will be incensed
by your poem. The other 90% will sense the romance (perhaps very latent)
with which God designed them.
Just a few comments from me elicited by a couple lines in your poem:
Without faith, we ARE dead -- spiritually dead. But, until we are
redeemed, we are never better off physically dead. There are only two
places for us after we leave this realm according to Jesus: Heaven and
hell. The billboard which says, "You think it's hot here?" could have
said, "You think you've got it bad here and now?" Jesus said that hell is
so bad that you DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE! It would be better to enter
Heaven mutilated than to enter hell whole. If plucking out your eye, or
cutting off your foot or hand, would keep you from the sin which leads to
death (spiritual death, the second death, the lake of fire), then that
would be better than keeping all your parts and going to hell. (Matt
5:29-30; 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-48)
Jesus tried many times in many different ways to tell His listeners about
the terrible consequence of unredeemed sin. Which is why, when one of my
aunts defended Dr. Jack Kevorkian as being a humanitarian who relieved
human suffering in a way that we offer unquestioningly to our pets, I
pointed out to my aunt that she was assuming that the people so killed
were being sent to a condition better than the one in which they find
themselves. If you believe Jesus at John 3:3 and 3:5 (and I do), then
Kevorkian only would be doing a favor to born-again people.
Many people sometimes WISH that they were (physically) dead. For
Christians who know where they are going, one might ask, "Who wouldn't
rather be in Heaven than suffering here?" But, for unsaved people to wish
themselves dead is the epitome of ignorance, foolishness, and deception.
The guy who blows his brains out is saying, "Jesus, I don't believe You."
Eternity is a very long time to regret that remark.
My other comment has to do with postmodern liberalism knowing your sword.
In the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:11-17), the only offensive weapon is
the sword. The sword is the Word of God. Jesus is the Word (beginning of
the Book of John). And in the Book of Revelation, the Son of Man has a
two-edged sword coming out of his mouth (Rev. 1:16), and He tells the
church at Pergamos to repent or He will come fight them with the sword of
His mouth (Rev. 2:16); and, when the armies of saints finally ride forth
from Heaven (Rev. 19:13-21), the rider on the white horse is called the
"Word of God", and He strikes the nations of the earth "with the sword
that
proceeds from His mouth."
(Heb 4:12): "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than
any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and
of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the
heart."
Don't doubt for an instant the power of that sword.
CAPTAIN R
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:08:45 -0500
From: carolyn stout
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: The Jolly Roger
What a surprise to find rebellious literary folk! I am delighted to know
there are people your age who beligerently love the classics. That they
can teach us morals I couldn't agree with more. Heaven knows the campuses
could use some!
From: Gregory Pischea
To: captain@jollyroger.com
Subject: Oh Captain my Captain.....
I just signed on board and wish I had more time to read and hear
everything on "OUR" web site. I will return from shore leave soon and
will catch up on my required reading.
Short bio... Im a retired United States Marine Corps flight officer who
also spent time in a upper class classroom teaching high school American
History.
Currently, I'm working on two book, with the first almost ready for my
publisher. The second is in outline form and involves a prison ship
bound for Australia in the early 1800's. I'm a big fan of Lord Nelson,
Hornblower and anything about the day long gone at sea. I have over 2
thousand books in my library...
Thanks for having me on board...
From: christina kearneky
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: FRISCO CALLS
Hello Becket,
I haven't received
any
mail from you lately so I figured you have been busy creating new stuff
for
your site or I have been removed from the mailing list. Of course I hope
this is not the case.
By the way, I wanted to brag about my successful semester; so nice that
one
of my papers for composition is being submitted to a journal (wish me
luck)!
You and your friends left a mighty impression on me and all the others who
frequent your site--keep impressing us and stay in touch.
Love and God Bless
Christina
From: Glenn Wilson < >
To: drake@jollyroger.com
Subject: Forget Rolling Stone,send your Comments to Chis Matthews CNBC's
Hardball
You guys should have sent you byline to Chris Matthews of CNBC's
Hardball instead of Rolling Stone. Chris, in his most animated self is
bewildered by the new trench coat mafia syndrome, stating "when I went
to school I listened to music and read stuff and the jocks were the
alpha wolves but I didn't go out and kill anyone."
One look at Grungservatives and their discordant philosophy would drive
him mad. It's the image-young fogies, where he's attempting to be a hip
old dude. Let me sing the song a little longer...Take an American Indian
in full battle regalia-US jungle camoflauge pants, ammo clips for his
mac-10 on his belt loops, a full breast plate made of dear bones, and
full war paint while he's helping a little old white lady cross the
road. Terrorist or the original Boy Scout? Grung and Golf clubs, Grung
and philosophy, Grung and brains...you've got the establishment
bewildered?
I love you stuff, and so for the all the bilge swine at the Jolly Roger
a poem with an agenda.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
and is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
by Ezra Pound
your swab,
Black Jack Shallac
From: Chris Clemence
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: POETRY FOR A PRISTINE GIRL
Becket,
With your permission, I'd like to post your poem, entitled POETRY FOR
A
PRISTINE GIRL, on my web site. I found it to be thoroughly enjoyable. You
did a
masterful job at expressing many of the thoughts and feelings I've had on
the
subject. Thank you for your consideration, and keep up the good work.
Chris Clemence
Please feel free to inspect my site. The URL is:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Dorm/2388
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