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From:  Edward Secka <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:  Re: Puhus the Post-Modern Critic - A story
Date:  Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:51:01 -0500
>Baba,
>That's a good story. I am intrigued. I like the literature.
>
>>From: Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Puhus the Post-Modern Critic - A story
>>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:13:16 +0000
>>
>>
>>
>>Puhus the Post-Modern Critic
>>
>>By Baba Galleh Jallow
>>
>>His Excellency the President, Dr. Yahakat Comganarr of the Republic
>>of
>>Anyhow was a very wise man. True, he had his friends and his
>>enemies. And
>>true, he made more enemies than friends because of his
>>ultra-sensitive
>>adherence to the infallible dictates of his reason. But true, true,
>>Dr.
>>Yahakat also knew how to tread on the slippery paths of life, how
>>to turn
>>friends into enemies, but especially how to turn enemies to friends
>>when he
>>needed to use them in pursuit of his political and allied goals.
>>
>>Dr. Yahakat applied his ultra-rational mind to the case of a
>>particularly
>>crafty friend he used to have, but with whom he had fallen out.
>>Actually,
>>this particular former friend, popularly known as Puhus the critic,
>>had had
>>a very bad falling out with Dr. Yahakat. But Puhus the critic had
>>regretted
>>falling out with his mentor and for many years, tried to win back
>>the
>>friendship of the great Dr. Yahakat. Dr. Yahakat, however, ignored
>>all of
>>Puhus’ wily moves for reconciliation, until one day . . . .
>>
>>Suddenly one day, Dr. Yahakat had great need of the services of
>>Puhus the
>>critic. So many nonentities were making so much noise about his
>>caliber of
>>leadership, which some folks described as absolutely anti-life, a
>>categorization that greatly angered His Pious Excellency but left
>>him with
>>no way to fight back. Now, the great leader remembered that Puhus
>>the
>>critic was just the right weapon to use against all those puny
>>little
>>fellows making unpleasant noises about his regime. And so Dr.
>>Yahakat
>>Comganarr, ever the wily politician, eventually made it known that
>>Puhus
>>the critic was indeed a very loyal friend and sent him a few
>>Chinese
>>dollars as a token of his new friendship. "I trust," His Excellency
>>told an
>>excited Puhus, "that you will now use your highly advanced critical
>>capacities and perspectives to silence all those jealous folks
>>making funny
>>noises about my government." Of
>>course, Puhus the clever critic could not wait to nod yes sir, yes
>>sir, my
>>lord. So hard did Puhus nod that his head, which was
>>disproportionately
>>large, nearly fell off his tiny neck.
>>
>>Thus readmitted into the favorite circle of the great leader, Puhus
>>the
>>critic gallantly set about his task of shaming all who dared to say
>>a word
>>contrary to the ideals and practices of His Infallible Excellency
>>Dr.
>>Yahakat Comganarr. During the period in which he was estranged from
>>Dr.
>>Yahakat, Puhus the critic had dived into the oceanic field of
>>academia and
>>drank heartily of the milk of wisdom. By the time of his
>>readmittance into
>>Dr. Yahakat’s most favored puppet status, Puhus the critic had
>>clinched a
>>Bachelors degree in Groping Techniques, A Masters degree in Virtual
>>Cyclics
>>and a Doctorate in the Advanced Principles of Don’t Care. He had
>>become an
>>expert in the novel theories of postmodernism, an achievement he
>>now used
>>with utmost gusto to silence all those semi-illiterate folks and
>>false
>>prophets who thought they were wise and tried to oppose His
>>Infallible and
>>Immortal Excellency, the Great Dr. Yahakat Comganarr of Anyhow
>>fame.
>>
>>Say anything about His Excellency in our village assembly and Puhus
>>the
>>critic would rise like a giant tree and tell you how you really
>>belonged to
>>"that class of pre-scientific vocalities who have lost touch with
>>the
>>inter-textual forms of binary logic."
>>
>>"All of you jealous folks live in an era of what I would call a
>>pre-limboric extra-falsity," Puhus the critic would wisely pout.
>>"And you
>>will do yourselves great service by taking your pre-social
>>underlingities
>>back into the glorious future of Yahakatian post-spatialities. For
>>whether
>>you like it or not, Dr. Yahakat will live forever and he will
>>forever be
>>our lord and master and the grand lord and master of our children
>>and our
>>children’s children. So I advise you to go and sleep."
>>
>>As far as Puhus the critic was concerned, it did not matter whether
>>what
>>was said of Dr. Yahakat was true or false, logical or illogical,
>>existent
>>or nonexistent, rational or irrational, thick or thin. So long as
>>it
>>sounded unpleasant in the hallowed ears of His Excellency the
>>President Dr.
>>Yahakat Comganarr, it was deserving of condemnation and ridicule in
>>the
>>most appropriate post-modern terms Puhus the critic could muster.
>>And boy,
>>did he have an arsenal of advanced terms!
>>
>>Indeed, our common townsfolk were so extremely impressed with the
>>seemingly
>>endless array of educated terms Puhus the critic knew that after
>>listening
>>to him put some cheeky folk down, they all would wildly stare and
>>hold
>>their mouths and call him sir. At which point Puhus the critic
>>would sagely
>>look around and ask, whatyasay?
>>
>>Our common townsfolk were even more amazed at the great guy’s
>>seemingly
>>boundless reserves of critical energy. For truth to say, Puhus the
>>critic
>>was an army of one against the entire big wide world, fighting not
>>for such
>>simplistic and outmoded things as truth or lies, justice or
>>injustice,
>>sense or nonsense, but an army of one dedicated to the total
>>defense and
>>liberation of His Pious Excellency the President, Dr. Yahakat
>>Comganarr of
>>the famous Republic of Anyhow, from the evil mouths of jealous
>>intellectual
>>midgets. Which was why our common townsfolk really felt that Puhus
>>the
>>critic deserves recognition and a huge slap on the back. Whoap!!
>>Six
>>fingers for Puhus the critic!!
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