17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Hi Evan, Thanks for that lovely peice about the Chiapas uprising. I'm saving it to disk. It's so archtypal of the turgid prose of graduates of Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University. How wondrous that leftists-without-a-home can find a cause to latch onto and keep their rhetorical skills in practice. Want to come with me tomorrow? I'm going down to the library to re-read the history of the Indians of Meso-America. I like the part about the hundreds of thousands of peasants who had their hearts cut out without anesthesia, so that the Emperor could collect lots of taxes on an abundant harvest. Damn shame that the Spaniards came along and destroyed a culture, ya know? Alan Horowitz alanh@infi.net