Shots In The Dark
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
  Quotes of the Day
"Fuck the cops. Come, Jesus. Blow me again."

—The 78-year-old poet Adrienne Rich, speaking at Columbia. Rich went on to lament "the diminished intensity of the feminist movement," and told the mostly female crowd, "I hope you'll keep it burning."

"Why do some...institutions of higher learning seem determined to close their eyes to uncomfortable ideas? One of them is the University of California-Davis, where feminist faculty members recently forced the cancellation of a speech by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers."

—USA Today editorial, 10/3



  6:49 AM  
Comments:
Trying way too hard I'm afraid.
# posted by Anonymous : October 3, 2007 7:34 AM
 
Out of context, we don't know what to make of the Rich quote. It could be a reference to the Donne Holy Sonnet that begins

Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you /
As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; /
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, 'and bend /
Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.

and ends

Take me to you, imprison me, for I /
Except you 'enthrall me, never shall be free, /
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.



Your resident blowhard,

Standing Eagle
# posted by Anonymous : October 3, 2007 9:49 AM
 
Yeah, that's probably it, SE.
# posted by Richard Bradley : October 3, 2007 10:30 AM
 
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