
5 Umbrellas – Pamela Viola

5 Umbrellas – Pamela Viola

Cliff Warner


I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.
There it is in all its Bellovian glory, the bluster and bombast! Can you smell it? The musk of a virile sentence drawing blood into itself? It is about to spread the labia of mediocrity and rut with the ineffable. We could all do worse than to write like Saul Bellow. And when I say write like Saul Bellow, I mean be Saul Bellow. And when I say be Saul Bellow, I mean unzip the skin from his body and wear it as a sort of Saul Bellow suit so that we can get cozy in it and truly inhabit it and understand the Old Macher. Except he is dead. And he was quite short, so your ankles and wrists would poke out of the flesh suit as if you were some ruddy-cheeked schoolboy who has outgrown his uniform, grimly trudging home from the elementary school and dreaming that one day you will write and be free from all these dullards and their cruel jibes
Where was I?”


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And here’s a site offering a $25,000 reward for information regarding the location of foreign volunteers working (as observers, activists, aid workers, doctors, reporters) in Gaza/Palestine in order that they may be ‘targeted and taken out for good’ by the Israeli military forces.
I’ve seen my share of hate sites, having been a bit of troller and taunter of Nazi and eugenicist groups in the past. But, this one really does take the biscuit. It appears to have been written by a sociopathic (and largely illiterate) 14 year old with mood-congruent paranoid ideation. Except that there’s a developer tag at the foot of the page that says the site was created by Quantum Media Inc. of Toronto; who, judging by their client portfolio are a reasonably established web development company.
It would be possible to point out all the delusions and fallacies on this page, for instance:
* the grandiose delusion that the occupying Israeli forces would act in the way he wishes (a common idea among fundamentalist zealots, who conflate themselves with the authoritarian organisation they worship: weak people are drawn to ‘strong’ groups/ideologies).
* The bizzarre cognitive dissonance of calling for the location of ‘human shields’ to be revealed. I mean seriously, what fucking use is a human shield apart from when their location IS known?
But it’s such a Logic FAIL that it would take far more time than the putrid hateful filth spewed out on the page is worth.

“Ducks” – Marina Yedigaroff