Gettysburg Address
- Joe: Hey
- Me: Hi
- Joe: What news?
- Me: Nothing great
- Joe: That is great
- Me: Oh! do you want the Zizek schedule?
- Joe: Yes...
- Joe: Where's sarai?
- Me: CSDS
- Joe: Delhi?
- Me: Delhi, yes.
- Joe: Is he in EFLU for only a day?
- Me: Yes and then to Kerala
- Joe: Okay, and you planning to travel with him?
- Me: Nope
- Joe: Try to do that...you can pick up a trick or two
- Me: I suspect if I can meet him at all. I've taken up this Thrissur assignment...
- Joe: Oh yes I got the poster from Shim
- Me: ...for which the travel charge is quite hefty...
- Oh! you know Shim?
- Joe: Well... not very closely, but he is in my Facebook friendlist
- Me: Ah! okay, so information is spreading alright. Good!
- Joe: hmm...people like Gcool are in Thrissur; they might be interested
- Me: Okay
- Joe: So you are going to disseminate the seeds of film studies in Kerala...
- Me: Yes seeds
- Joe: Hope they get water and manure... and grow properly... into big plants and trees
- Me: ...or cows and buffaloes
- Joe: Cows and buffaloes may eat the leaves
- Me: ha ha...I was using a non-Brahmanical idiom
- Joe: i was anyway using a non-Brahmanical idiom. It is from a parable in the Bible.
- Me: I see
- Joe: I am Syro-Malabar, not Brahmanical
- Me: I can see that
- Joe: What else?
- Me: I am trying to book tickets from Bombay to go to Kerala
- Joe: When are you going to kerala?
- Me: 25th, hopefully
- Joe: Okay...hopefully we'll meet in Thrissur
- Me: Oh yes, you can peek in and interact with students
- Joe: Okay... I will get an intro from you guys, I'll be with the students
- Me: Babe is there...will be there. So you can catch up with him.
- Joe: What is Babe doing?
- Me: I mean he is coming home for vacation
- Joe: Yes, I know
- Me: I have booked dinner at his home
- : )
- Joe: Cool. Any interesting readings these days?
- Me: I am reading Pamuk's new book, along with some articles for the seminar.
- Me: Love story
- Joe: cool, between Jim don't give examples like 'why can't I grab that girl's boobs or ass'... pointing at girls sitting nearby
- Me: ha ha okay!
- Joe: Because one of the girls in that group who used to be friendly with me looked away when I saw her last
- Me: Which group?
- Joe: You were drunk; probably you don't remember. You were giving an example for fetishising and objects of desire or commodity or whatever
- Me: To whom?
- Joe: And you were talking about the boobs or ass of the girl sitting right next to us
- Me: I was drunk?
- Joe: Yes
- Me: Jesus!
- Joe: Yes. Jesus can't help, only you can.
- Me: Which girl was that?
- Joe: Anyway... and you kept giving socially outrageous examples like incest. A bunch of MA girls were sitting in the chairs next to us. It all sounded like one porn lecture.
- Me: Oh! but they were not our audience right?
- Joe: No... but you were talking very loudly
- Me: That's okay. I thought I addressed them.
- Joe: hmm
- Me: Anyway, if I had, it would have sounded like the Gettysburg address
- Joe: Do you think you are like Abraham Lincoln?
- Me: No, but I spoke of freedom for the people, by the people, and of the people
- : )
- Joe: No ... you were speaking about the connection between psychoanalysis and Marxism ...
- Me: Yes! but its all about our freedom
- Joe: ... and you gave totally obscene examples to illustrate your point
- Me: :)
- See, the point was to free obscenity from its shackles and make it a point of discourse for the civil people...
- Joe: I guess Osho did a much better job of it
- Me: ...and not just for the “slaves”, you know?
- Joe: Yes, anyway... I need to get to some work. Catch you later
- Me: Sure. Bye.
- Joe: Bye.
