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			Germanizers of the World Unite!!! - De File Does Collecting Make You Feel Dirty?

cbertsch


	Germanizers of the World Unite!!!
	I was looking at the Ernst Jünger volumes beckoning me seductively from the top of my filing cabinet when I noticed this e-mail: Maybe the fractured yet compelling narrative sketched out here could be transformed into avant-garde pornography. We'll get Karl Hungus for the male lead. And how about "Stormy Steele" for the main attraction. I can hear the dialogue in my head: "Oh, Karl, hit me with another shell. You're ordinance is so pure, so enchantingly puissant!" Tags: humor, spam Current Location: 85721

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	From: quuf	Date: February 19th, 2008 04:39 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I actually save some of the more evocative pharmspam I've received. Here's one favorite, from a couple years back:

The especial tutor to Louis XIII of France, from his desire to devote himself do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.

VALIUM CIALIS VIAGRA XANAX AMBIEN LEVITRA PROZAC

Such.profit of me. The Fisherman replied, I should indeed be a very warning: O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: February 19th, 2008 04:46 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Great minds think alike. Check out my "spam" tag. I save them too!

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	From: johnny9fingers	Date: February 19th, 2008 04:53 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I'm sure I came across that paragraph once when I read Gravity's Rainbow backwards.
Perhaps I err.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: February 19th, 2008 04:57 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

It might well be one of the ingredients in that tasty stew of German "Goodness!"

(And thanks for the kind words posted elsewhere about what I do here. I like blogs that do lots of different things, like yours. It's what I aspire to in this journal.)

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	From: cpratt	Date: February 19th, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

What happens next? He fixes the cable?

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	From: cbertsch	Date: February 19th, 2008 09:08 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I suspect that some splitting will ensue. . .

:-)

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User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

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ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

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